The practice has its roots in ancient pagan traditions that were persecuted by the Puritans.

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.

Reflecting on a Hippie mantra, “Be sure to wear flowers in your hair,” youngsters from Lakeside School at Black Kettle and their guests adorned themselves with floral halos and danced ...

The holiday celebrates the return of light after the long, dark Nordic winter. Here’s how to take part in Sweden, or wherever ...

Perhaps you’ve seen the viral YouTube clip of the Hollywood actress Alicia Vikander explaining to talk show host Jimmy Kimmel what Swedish Midsummer is all about (she even taught him the classic “frog ...

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 ...

Everybody can be Swedish for a day during Bishop Hill's Midsommar Music Festival, starting at 10 a.m. Saturday. The event will feature music, food, and Swedish culture. ``One will have the opportunity ...

The maypole dance is a form of folk dance that originated in Germany, England and Sweden about the same time. The most popular version of the dance consists of eight to 16 girls (the traditional dance ...

First-graders from Anne Goddard's classroom at Ocean Crest Elementary dressed in their most colorful clothing and traipsed to City Park Tuesday afternoon to dance around a Maypole put up by city 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 ...