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 ...

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 ...

A rural village is keeping a centuries-old tradition alive by dancing in the footsteps of the past. Hemswell's May Day celebrations, in Lincolnshire, take place every year and is thought to be one of ...

When June rolls around in Sweden, it's time to pick wildflowers, feast on pickled herring and dance around the maypole.

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 ...

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 ...

May is here, bringing with it more school holidays and bank holidays to look forward to. But before the second of the long weekends at the end of the month, we get May Day — which always falls on the ...

May Day has ancient, pagan roots, harmonizing with a modern-day appreciation of its association with the verdant, reanimating time of mid-spring. Beltane is the name of the pagan celebration of one of ...