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 ...

It's been a focal point for the Great Exhibition of the North but now the eye-catching Maypole at Grey's Monument in the city centre has gone. Much to the disappointment of passers-by, the floral ...

I wish I had danced around a Maypole with my mother. I’m not sure why it didn’t happen at least once in her 101 years. At the very least, I wish I had told her I wanted to. “Mom let’s celebrate my ...

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 ...

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 ...

An old photograph shows a traditional maypole dance in the village from 1947 A forgotten maypole which was last erected in the 1940s will be used to revive the ancient tradition in a Lancashire ...