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 ...

The practice has its roots in ancient pagan traditions that were persecuted by the Puritans.

A group of children are preparing to perform a maypole dance in May A group fighting to continue a tradition of Maypole dancing in a Rutland village said they needed more members to keep going. The ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Just go ahead and say it: Pole dancing in the United Kingdom just isn’t what it was in the late 1700s. After an emergence of the art of maypole dancing in Britain in the late-Victorian era, the ...

L. ALSACE TWP., Pa. - An event in Lower Alsace Township is honoring a tradition that goes back thousands of years. Mayfest is best known for the Maypole dance and the crowning of the Queen of the May.

Today, this day is known as May Day, and is still one of the most important traditional celebrations in England. Over the ...

Whenever I mention pinning the lace curtains on the rack to stretch them, I get a note or two from those whose memory it jogged and they remember all the pin pricks on their fingers. Last week was no ...

Benjamin Hitch-Bramley is urging people to get in touch if they can help their appeal For more than 150 years Gawthorpe's maypole has anchored the village's May Day celebrations. But, with the pole ...