It's as English as warm beer and fish and chips...but maypole dancing is becoming a dying art. Now residents on a Bradford estate are rallying round to bring the tradition back to life. But there's ...

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

SPRINGTIME SCHOOL DAY: Was the day that you got out of class, just a few weeks ahead of summer vacation, to learn the maypole dance, just about the most exciting event of your elementary school life?

May Day is celebrated annually on May 1. It is an ancient spring festival in many European cultures and a widely observed International Workers’ Day (Labour Day) in many countries.

In ancient times in England — before the church and Parliament banished the pagan tradition in 1644 — young unmarried men and women went off into the woods to cut down a tree to set in the ground for ...

May Day 2026 was celebrated with dawn Morris dancing across parts of the UK and a revived maypole event at California’s Pelican Inn. Rooted in ancient seasonal customs, both traditions brought ...

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 ...

Dancing days will soon be here again, at least if one state lawmaker has his way. Fresh off of his success in getting an angel investor tax credit through the General Assembly, Rep. Mike Ramone is on ...

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 ...