Alas, another May is slipping away, and I haven't followed up with a long-ago maypole dance I once thought to conduct for the little local boys and girls. There were plenty of them around then. They ...

A good deal of the news over last weekend was about May Day, that annual day of labor protest or dancing around the Maypole, depending on your predilections. In Seattle, Wash., the news focused on the ...

May Day has ancient, pagan roots, harmonizing with a modern-day appreciation of its association with the verdant, reanimating time of mid-spring. Beltane is the name of the pagan celebration of one of ...

The American Scandinavian Association will present a Scandinavian Midsummer Thursday, June 16, at First Lutheran Church, 1600 20th St., Rock Island. The public is invited to bring flowers and help ...