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We used to dance the Maypole and put flowers on doors (in May baskets) - did you, or do you, do anything for May Day?

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Esther Evans

I can remember doing the maypole in school as a child.....since then, nothing...

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AncientFaces

I miss May Day celebrations. Especially flowers on doors . . .

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Lois Stevens-Winn

We used to put flowers on doors, and I vaugley remember the maypole in school. They don't do any of it anymore.

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Dorene Benshoof

as a child in the 60's our grade school still had the maypole and we made flower baskets to take home.

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Sharon Kay McNamara

My mom told me about what they did for May Day back in the 1920s. I don't think it's been done since. Sad!

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AncientFaces

We did in the 50s . . .

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Sharon Kay McNamara

I started grade school in 1960. I don't remember doing anything for May Day. I do recall making flower baskets out of construction paper but I am not sure what it was for.

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Judy Campbell Miller

We made May baskets at school and at home in the early 60s and there were maypoles around back then too.

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Sherry Pennington

AncientFaces
We did in the early 60's as well.

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Doris Krueger Buchmann

The American Legion put a stop to all of that! Dummies!

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Linda A. Alvira

Doris Krueger Buchmann Why did they do that?

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Linda Woody

When I was a kid, we always either did a Maypole Dance or a folk dance for our school's May Day celebration. I also was the May Queen of the May Festival at our local city park recreation center as a child of about 9 years old. This all was in the early and mid-1960's in Southern California.

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Anita Creighton

I hot a May basket once when i was a kid

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Cheryl Julia

Every May at school we had the celebration of May with Maypole dance .

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Cindy Roll

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We had a huge party at school to celebrate and did the Maypole with our prettiest formal dresses on, it was a private school. I don't knnow what the public schools did back in the 60's and 70's.

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Anita Hattaway

My birthday is May 1st, and for four years I attended an elementary school that held a special May Day celebration. Of course, I felt this was also a special day for me! Now that I'm 66 today, it is a precious memory.

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Darlene Eldredge

I did the May pole thing in grade school. If you didn't follow directions, it was a big mess!

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AncientFaces

The mess was part of the fun! ?

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Jackie Young Lenarz

My Mom and I always made May Baskets and hung them on neighbor’s doors.... we even made May Baskets in school. .... late 60’s in Missouri

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Linda Susan Porteous

Strangely we have "worker's day" here in South Africa which is a public holiday and it fell on the 1st of May this year.

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James Turner

Long ago and far away.
Thank you so much for sharing.

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Susan W. Milam

This is me at our school’s May Day celebration many moons ago!

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John Binfield

British History
Yesterday at 7:07pm
May Day originally a Roman festival which began on 28th April and lasted several days to mark the commencement of summer. In England, middle and lower classes would gather flowers - ‘go a maying’ - and the prettiest village maid was crowned Queen of the May, celebrated with dancing around the maypole.

•Here's a couple of good articles about May Day:

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