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 ...

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 ...

A social media image purporting to be an opinion article in The Guardian newspaper, opens new tab, in which a British folk dance is labelled racist, is fake. The screenshot, which mimics the British ...

In a nod to the past — the very old past — the village of Orland Park hosted a May Day celebration Saturday. The spring celebration can be traced back to Roman times, but the village’s historical ...

Alas, another May is slipping away, and I haven't followed up with a long-ago maypole dance I once thought to conduct for the little local boys and girls. There were plenty of them around then. They ...

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 ...

Today is Wednesday, May 28, the 148th day of 2025. There are 217 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed ...

Enjoy a weekend full of beer, food, music and maypole dancing at Goebel Park Enjoy a weekend full of beer, food, music and maypole dancing at Goebel Park Enjoy a weekend full of beer, food, music and ...

BAY RIDGE — BROOKLYN’S VIKING FEST CONTINUES TO CELEBRATE the borough’s Norwegian and wider Scandinavian heritage and will take place this Saturday, May 10 at Owl’s Head/Bliss Park. Viking Fest 2025, ...

The author with friends at a Beltane celebration, featuring a Maypole (Photo: Emily Guenther) Beltane is a holiday celebrated by many Earth-based spiritual traditions. It falls on May 1st and is ...