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 ...

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 ...

It's May 1st! Astronomically, that means that spring has just started, but, culturally, this is around the time when the northern hemisphere unofficially welcomes summer. For many years, people have ...

This Thursday is May Day—also known as International Workers’ Day—and Portland is showing up. From a rally hosted by the Portland Association of Teachers on May 1 to weekend events for the working ...

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 ...

Mayday, Mayday, Mayday. The emergency distress signal best known to mariners and aviators is familiar to most. The call typically comes in sets of threes to prevent being misunderstood by another word ...