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 ...

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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.

Maypole dancing might seem like a thing of the past, but the tradition is being kept alive in villages across England and in Oxfordshire - here are some of the best pictures of it in the archive.

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 ...

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 ...