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 ...

BAY RIDGE — BROOKLYN’S VIKING FEST CONTINUES TO CELEBRATE the borough’s Norwegian and wider Scandinavian heritage and will take place this Saturday, May 10 at Owl’s Head/Bliss Park. Viking Fest 2025, ...

For much of her childhood in White Salmon, Washington, Tristin Roy marked the first of May by clutching a long ribbon and twirling it around a maypole with the rest of her ballet class until an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.