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

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

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 ...

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.

Swedish Midsommar will bring a little paganism to the precincts of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd on Tuesday. Festivities begin at 12:30 p.m. with women making wildflower wreaths to wear 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 ...

Goostrey School pupils rehearse traditional maypole dance as preparations begin for Rose Day, celebrating community spirit and village heritage.

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 ...

ST. CHARLES, Mo. – Main street in Bloom is back at Historic St. Charles’ Main Street, and the Merchants and business owners are ready. Come to Main Street in Bloom on May 6th and 7th. On Sunday, there ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benjamin Hitch-Bramley is urging people to get in touch if they can help their appeal [Alex Moss/BBC] For more than 150 years ...