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

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 ...

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 ...

In my family photo collection, I have a copy of the photo you see in this edition taken by John Bowman. It has always ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- They skip across the field in perfect time to the piped-in polka music, 54 fifth-graders, dressed in their Sunday best -- girls with new, white Keds and boys in their deck shoes or ...

I wish I had danced around a Maypole with my mother. I’m not sure why it didn’t happen at least once in her 101 years. At the very least, I wish I had told her I wanted to. “Mom let’s celebrate my ...