The Swedish Day Midsummer Festival returns for its 113th year on Sunday, June 18, at Good Templar Park in Geneva. "Svenskarnas Dag" is the Midwest's oldest Midsummer festival, dating back to 1911.

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

61 x 51 in. (154.9 x 129.5 cm.) Wilhem Berrouet (Haitian, 20th c.) "Children Doing Maypole Dance", oil painting on canvas, signed. Unframed. Size: 24'' x 20'', 61 x 51 cm (stretcher). Provenance: The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Experience the whimsy of the summer solstice and celebrate the longest day of the year with flower drying, maypole dancing, ...

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Celebrate Swedish summer magic in Illinois with flower crowns, maypoles, music, food, and Clark Street energy at Chicago’s ...