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 ...

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?

Wearing flower crowns, attendees attendees of all ages assembled small May Day baskets using fresh flowers, while music ...

Years of silence ended with the bells of morris dancers, singing and maypole dancing as a York community revived its ...

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 ...