You may have seen images or videos of people dancing around maypoles on May Day. Perhaps you've even found yourself twirling ...

May Day is celebrated annually on May 1. It is an ancient spring festival in many European cultures and a widely observed ...

UK artist Linett Kamala was astonished to see a maypole in a Jamaican hamlet – a colonial relic, but one bringing joy. So she reinvented the tradition by ditching English folk tunes and adding bass ...

FROM morris dancing and maypole twirling to crowning the May Queen, May Day is one of the UK’s oldest seasonal celebrations.

Explore May Day's origins from European festivals to global labor protests and the unrelated 'Mayday' emergency call, ...

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 ...

With spring in full flow, we look back at how people in Bolton traditionally marked this time of year – from maypole dancing to ...

Our resident investigator of Nottingham's weird history, Matthew Blaney, delves into the story of the Wellow Maypole...

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 ...

I suppose you could dance around a maypole but on May 1, 1926, there was dancing at Ocean Echo featuring Benny Resh and his Arcadians Dance Orchestra. On Plum Island, ...