UK artist Linett Kamala was astonished to see a maypole in a Jamaican hamlet – a colonial relic, but one bringing joy. So she reinvented the tradition by ditching English folk tunes and adding bass ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

Maypole dancing on May Day to welcome the spring is a long-held tradition, and these pictures show dances across Oxfordshire, ...

Measuring 70ft (21m) and weighing roughly the same as a family car, the current maypole was installed on 8 March 1986. For ...

Often, some of the most consequential political events go relatively unnoticed. So it was recently with the passage by the General Assembly of House Bill 383. This landmark piece of legislation ...