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 ...

You may have seen images or videos of people dancing around maypoles on May Day. Perhaps you've even found yourself twirling around one, clad in flowers, breathing in the fresh late spring air. It ...

Spring is in full bloom and we're halfway to summer. May 1, known as May Day, has long been celebrated as the midway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. Like those days, May Day ...

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 ...

May Day is a European festival that dates back nearly a thousand years. It marks the beginning of summer and is usually celebrated at the beginning of May - halfway between the spring equinox and ...