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

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 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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...