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 ...

61 x 51 in. (154.9 x 129.5 cm.) Wilhem Berrouet (Haitian, 20th c.) "Children Doing Maypole Dance", oil painting on canvas, signed. Unframed. Size: 24'' x 20'', 61 x 51 cm (stretcher). Provenance: The ...

The Swedish Day Midsummer Festival returns for its 113th year on Sunday, June 18, at Good Templar Park in Geneva. "Svenskarnas Dag" is the Midwest's oldest Midsummer festival, dating back to 1911.

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 ...

Residents ended years of silence as they welcomed in the May in traditional style with maypole dancing, the bells of morris men and the May Queen. Copmanthorpe used to dance round the maypole in the ...

With spring in full flow, we look back at how people in Bolton traditionally marked this time of year – from maypole dancing to community celebrations remembered by generations. For generations, the ...