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 ...

Hundreds of kids involved in Allentown summer camps, participated in 109th Romper Day celebration at J. Birney Crum Football Stadium in Allentown. The children in various sports events, dance ...

Three hours of May Day celebrations are being lined up in Melton Mowbray town centre.

Enjoy a weekend full of beer, food, music and maypole dancing at Goebel Park Enjoy a weekend full of beer, food, music and maypole dancing at Goebel Park Enjoy a weekend full of beer, food, music and ...

PORTALES, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s a long-standing tradition in Portales, the Maypole Dance, is a right of passage for seniors at the high school. This year, the Maypole Queen is breaking barriers, proving ...

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.

Just go ahead and say it: Pole dancing in the United Kingdom just isn’t what it was in the late 1700s. After an emergence of the art of maypole dancing in Britain in the late-Victorian era, the ...