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 ...

In ancient times in England — before the church and Parliament banished the pagan tradition in 1644 — young unmarried men and women went off into the woods to cut down a tree to set in the ground for ...

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 ...

Many will be dancing around a maypole this sunny May Day (Picture: Getty) Nothing beckons summer forth more effectively than dancing around a pole adorned with long, coloured ribbons… if you believe ...

Traditional dances, musical performances, and the erection of a new maypole highlighted Saturday’s celebration of the 386th anniversary of Thomas Morton’s maypole celebration with the Native Americans ...

In the traditional maypole dance, participants weave colorful ribbons into intricate patterns as they circle the pole in ...

Lancaster Liederkranz is now the Guinness World Record holder for the largest maypole dance. The organization hosted a celebration of its new Maibaum (maypole) on May 9 when 163 couples —326 people — ...

About 250 people gathered on the grounds at the Berks County 4-H Center in Bern Township to watch a traditional English maypole dance Saturday and celebrate the coming of warmer weather. The May Faire ...

Dancing days will soon be here again, at least if one state lawmaker has his way. Fresh off of his success in getting an angel investor tax credit through the General Assembly, Rep. Mike Ramone is on ...

It is a date that was at the heart of British culture for centuries: May Day, the moment when spring enters full bloom and summer is a-coming in. Now, after a long decline in interest, traditional May ...