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 ...

For much of her childhood in White Salmon, Washington, Tristin Roy marked the first of May by clutching a long ribbon and twirling it around a maypole with the rest of her ballet class until an ...

Skipping left and right and dancing in circles, the Barron Park residents take up colorful ribbons each year in May to celebrate the final blooming of spring into summer with a dance around the ...

DANBURY - Nadiya Hafizova, 11, has never been to Washington, D.C., but on Monday, several thousand spectators will watch her dance on the White House lawn. Nadiya is one of 37 Wooster School fifth- ...

TIVERTON — The first decision the Maypole dancers had to make was what color ribbon they would hold as they danced around the tall pole that was covered in a colorful ribbon weave from last year’s ...

FORT MEADE — As third-graders from Fort Meade's Lewis Anna Woodbury Elementary School marched around the Maypole on Monday, entwining ribbons around it, Thelma Chambers reminisced about a similar day ...

Her face would light up every time she told me the maypole story. It was an anchor of joy from my mother’s childhood. Her descriptions were so vivid that I could see the multicolored ribbons and each ...