In 1933, the campground in Appelscha was bought by anti-militarist workers, and it is here that the festival has taken place ever since, every year during the Pentecost on the anarchist, alcohol-free camping site Tot Vrijheidsbezinning.

The Frisian town of Appelscha has a long tradition of radical revolutionary socialism and anarchism, which started on March 30, 1889 when the anarchist Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis gave a speech to the village's dissatisfied workers.

The local anarchist youth organized a Pinksterlanddagen event for the first time in 1924 on the Tot Vrijheidsbezinning site (literally: "For Freedom of Mind").

[1] In 1970 the Provo Roel van Duijn attended the Pinksterlanddagen and organized a teach-in as the culmination of a propaganda manifestation for anarchism and for all anti-authoritarian movements in the Netherlands: pacifists, council communists, socialists and others.

[3] According to the anarchist-communist principle "From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs", leftover and well-preserved food items are put on a long table after the event, so they can be packed and taken away.