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That said, “it’s a work in progress,” said Jack Maypole, a pediatrician at Boston Medical Center and father to three.
From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2020
Maypole dancing was popular in the village too - this image is from 1905.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2016
T-shirts -- swarmed around the grinning golfer as if he were a Maypole.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 2, 2013
A gilded Maypole had been set up in the river gardens on a square of turf which was enclosed by the famous Provencal rose bushes, already tipped with coral buds.
From The Guardian • May 21, 2012
By the time I had celebrated my twelfth birthday back on December 7, 1953, I'd believed I had put aside my hurt over being left out of all the Maypole dances forever.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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