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 ...

Traditional dances, musical performances, and the erection of a new maypole highlighted Saturday’s celebration of the 386th anniversary of Thomas Morton’s maypole celebration with the Native Americans ...

Lancaster Liederkranz is now the Guinness World Record holder for the largest maypole dance. The organization hosted a celebration of its new Maibaum (maypole) on May 9 when 163 couples —326 people — ...

Many will be dancing around a maypole this sunny May Day (Picture: Getty) Nothing beckons summer forth more effectively than dancing around a pole adorned with long, coloured ribbons… if you believe ...

About 250 people gathered on the grounds at the Berks County 4-H Center in Bern Township to watch a traditional English maypole dance Saturday and celebrate the coming of warmer weather. The May Faire ...

A group of children are preparing to perform a maypole dance in May A group fighting to continue a tradition of Maypole dancing in a Rutland village said they needed more members to keep going. The ...

DANBURY - Nadiya Hafizova, 11, has never been to Washington, D.C., but on Monday, several thousand spectators will watch her dance on the White House lawn. Nadiya is one of 37 Wooster School fifth- ...

CUTLINE; Spectators can participate in English Maypole Dances, which traditionally were done on the first of May to celebrate summer and to ensure a good harvest. jodi o'shaughnessy ...

A TASTE of merry old England took over St David’s Park for May Day. Children from Sandy Bay Infant School and members of the Jolley Hatters Morris English dance group commemorated May Day with ...