For much of her childhood in White Salmon, Washington, Tristin Roy marked the first of May by clutching a long ribbon and twirling it around a maypole with the rest of her ballet class until an ...

Measuring 70ft (21m) and weighing roughly the same as a family car, the current maypole was installed on 8 March 1986. For ...

You may have seen images or videos of people dancing around maypoles on May Day. Perhaps you've even found yourself twirling ...

UK artist Linett Kamala was astonished to see a maypole in a Jamaican hamlet – a colonial relic, but one bringing joy. So she reinvented the tradition by ditching English folk tunes and adding bass ...

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 ...

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 ...