For weeks I had been looking forward to the vegan potluck and Maypole dance at my daughter's new school. Parents had been instructed to bring vegan finger food, beverages to share and flowers from the ...

You may have seen images or videos of people dancing around maypoles on May Day. Perhaps you've even found yourself twirling around one, clad in flowers, breathing in the fresh late spring air. It ...

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 ...

A group of children are preparing to perform a maypole dance in May A group fighting to continue a tradition of Maypole dancing in a Rutland village said they needed more members to keep going. The ...

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A group fighting to continue a tradition of Maypole dancing in a Rutland village said they needed more members to keep going. The Braunston troupe teaches children aged between five and 13 to weave ...