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?

Many will be dancing around a maypole this sunny May Day (Picture: Getty) Nothing beckons summer forth more effectively than dancing around a pole adorned with long, coloured ribbons… if you believe ...

Fourth-graders at Mary E. Dardess Elementary School perform the annual Maypole dance during the Arbor Day celebration Friday. The dance has been taking place at the school since sometime in the 1980s.

In a nod to the past — the very old past — the village of Orland Park hosted a May Day celebration Saturday. The spring celebration can be traced back to Roman times, but the village’s historical ...

It is a date that was at the heart of British culture for centuries: May Day, the moment when spring enters full bloom and summer is a-coming in. Now, after a long decline in interest, traditional May ...