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

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 ...

Hundreds of kids involved in Allentown summer camps, participated in 109th Romper Day celebration at J. Birney Crum Football Stadium in Allentown. The children in various sports events, dance ...

For weeks I had been looking forward to the vegan potluck and Maypole dance at my daughter's new school. Parents had been instructed to bring vegan finger food, beverages to share and flowers from the ...

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 ...

Alas, another May is slipping away, and I haven't followed up with a long-ago maypole dance I once thought to conduct for the little local boys and girls. There were plenty of them around then. They ...

The Davis Waldorf School invites local families to celebrate spring at its annual day of games, food and festivities, with a May King and Queen and a traditional maypole dance. The May Faire ...

TIVERTON — The first decision the Maypole dancers had to make was what color ribbon they would hold as they danced around the tall pole that was covered in a colorful ribbon weave from last year’s ...

COPPERAS COVE — Members of the Copperas Cove Five Hills royalty got into the spirit of May Day Friday by holding a traditional Maypole Dance. Six members of the Five Hills royalty took part in the ...

Fourth-graders at Mary E. Dardess Elementary School perform the annual Maypole dance during the Arbor Day celebration Friday. The dance has been taking place at the school since sometime in the 1980s.

The pole rises 20 feet in the air, and with its colored ribbons tapering to the ground in a circle looks like an enormous spinning top that somehow has alighted on a leafy stretch of Sunset Boulevard.