While I had vaguely heard of the Maypole dance over the years, the first one I experienced in person involved schoolchildren in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. My son had enrolled as a fifth grader in ...

In a nod to the past — the very old past — the village of Orland Park hosted a May Day celebration Saturday. The spring celebration can be traced back to Roman times, but the village’s historical ...

Alas, another May is slipping away, and I haven't followed up with a long-ago maypole dance I once thought to conduct for the little local boys and girls. There were plenty of them around then. They ...

If you're walking in Palo Alto a couple Sundays from now and come across two donkeys, maypole dancing, a steam train, a middle-school band and piles of burritos, it can only be one thing -- you've ...

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L. ALSACE TWP., Pa. - An event in Lower Alsace Township is honoring a tradition that goes back thousands of years. Mayfest is best known for the Maypole dance and the crowning of the Queen of the May.

LANCASTER — May Day was once a popular holiday. Children made May baskets in school or at home, filled them with candy and cookies and left them at neighbor’s and friends houses. The delivery method ...

Fourth-graders at Mary E. Dardess Elementary School perform the annual Maypole dance during the Arbor Day celebration Friday. The dance has been taking place at the school since sometime in the 1980s.