As the brass band played Bavarian tunes and the villagers drank their beer, watched and cheered, the young men of Kühbach in southern Germany pushed up their new maypole with long wooden rods until it ...
The Western Elstons, pictured here at Simon’s Tavern, play Saturday at the daylong Maypole Folk Festival. Credit: Rebecca Ciprus The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we ...
May Day and Maypole dancing were a way for generations of old to usher in spring and acknowledge the gifts of life and new growth. The city of Zachary, led by Mayor David Amrhein’s office, has planned ...