The practice has its roots in ancient pagan traditions that were persecuted by the Puritans.

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 ...

Stephanie Block picks out flowers for a crown during La Primavera Festival, a spring celebration at Marjorie Park on Saturday, April 25, 2026. The festival included flower crowns, a maypole dance, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Experience the whimsy of the summer solstice and celebrate the longest day of the year with flower drying, maypole dancing, ...

Celebrate Swedish summer magic in Illinois with flower crowns, maypoles, music, food, and Clark Street energy at Chicago’s ...