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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A social media image purporting to be an opinion article in The Guardian newspaper, opens new tab, in which a British folk dance is labelled racist, is fake. The screenshot, which mimics the British ...

Alas, another May is slipping away, and I haven't followed up with a long-ago maypole dance I once thought to conduct for the little local boys and girls. There were plenty of them around then. They ...