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 ...

Hundreds of kids involved in Allentown summer camps, participated in 109th Romper Day celebration at J. Birney Crum Football Stadium in Allentown. The children in various sports events, dance ...

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 ...

A group fighting to continue a tradition of Maypole dancing in a Rutland village said they needed more members to keep going. The Braunston troupe teaches children aged between five and 13 to weave ...

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 ...

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The pole rises 20 feet in the air, and with its colored ribbons tapering to the ground in a circle looks like an enormous spinning top that somehow has alighted on a leafy stretch of Sunset Boulevard.

Republicans and Democrats are going toe-to-toe in trying to hammer out a budget for next fiscal year, but there's one issue they're not dancing around. As budget talks remain mired down less than two ...