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 ...

A maypole believed to be one of the tallest in the UK has been taken down to be repainted ahead of this year's bank holiday celebrations. The maypole in Barwick-in-Elmet, near Leeds, is removed on ...