Experience the whimsy of the summer solstice and celebrate the longest day of the year with flower drying, maypole dancing, ...

Celebrate Swedish summer magic in Illinois with flower crowns, maypoles, music, food, and Clark Street energy at Chicago’s ...

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

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

For weeks I had been looking forward to the vegan potluck and Maypole dance at my daughter's new school. Parents had been instructed to bring vegan finger food, beverages to share and flowers from the ...

In ancient times in England — before the church and Parliament banished the pagan tradition in 1644 — young unmarried men and women went off into the woods to cut down a tree to set in the ground for ...

SPRINGTIME SCHOOL DAY: Was the day that you got out of class, just a few weeks ahead of summer vacation, to learn the maypole dance, just about the most exciting event of your elementary school life?

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 ...

Dancing days will soon be here again, at least if one state lawmaker has his way. Fresh off of his success in getting an angel investor tax credit through the General Assembly, Rep. Mike Ramone is on ...

Often, some of the most consequential political events go relatively unnoticed. So it was recently with the passage by the General Assembly of House Bill 383. This landmark piece of legislation ...