LeClaire School kindergartners celebrated with a Maypole dance in the early 1900s, reflecting the community’s unique history.

May Day is celebrated with colors, flowers and bonfires. Those who celebrate it, adorn their homes with flowers and greenery, and gather in public spaces for some maypole dancing, crowning a May ...

May Day is known to some as a spring holiday within the pagan tradition, one associated with rebirth, maypole dances and a May Queen presiding over festivities. But May Day, as invoked by protesters, ...

Perhaps one of the most recognizable May Day rituals centers literally around the maypole, a tall, decorated poll in which participants hold on to attached ribbons and dance around in a circle.

Ancient Greeks and Romans held festivals on May Day to celebrate the return of spring. People gathered flowers, wove flower garlands and danced around a May tree or Maypole to encourage the ...

Over time, May Day became a village celebration in medieval Europe, with customs such as maypole dancing, crownings of May Queens, and decorating homes with flowers — all symbols of fertility ...

Villagers gathered around the maypole, to celebrate the fertility of the earth and renewal of communal life. On this day, the usual hierarchies were unsettled. Peasants and nobles danced in the ...

The farm, a historic site in Orland Park, hosted a maypole dance and celebration. (Jesse Wright/for the Daily Southtown) The May Day celebration May 3, 2025, at the Stellwagen Farm in Orland Park ...

Bobbi-Lyn van der Heide arrived early for the May Day parade in Fort Langley, staking out a portion of Glover Road to wait ...