For more than 150 years Gawthorpe's maypole has anchored the village's May Day celebrations. But, with the pole showing its age, organisers are searching for a replacement to ensure the tradition ...

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 ...

Liam Tunney is covering the inquest for the Belfast Telegraph MLA blasts PSNI as cars rampage in west Belfast for low-level drug dealer who died in Lough Neagh MLA blasts PSNI as cars rampage in west ...

61 x 51 in. (154.9 x 129.5 cm.) Wilhem Berrouet (Haitian, 20th c.) "Children Doing Maypole Dance", oil painting on canvas, signed. Unframed. Size: 24'' x 20'', 61 x 51 cm (stretcher). Provenance: The ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

May Day has ancient, pagan roots, harmonizing with a modern-day appreciation of its association with the verdant, reanimating time of mid-spring. Beltane is the name of the pagan celebration of one of ...

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 ...