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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
Scandinavian arts and crafts vendors will be on hand; kids activities will include a costume parade, and a Maypole raising will be held at 2 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2013
T-shirts -- swarmed around the grinning golfer as if he were a Maypole.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 2, 2013
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
The group worked with local straw craft workers to produce large straw maypole toppers which were then used as part of the set.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
I detailed my near-worship of “A Time to Keep,” my attempts to replicate the Pumpkin House of “The Dolls’ Christmas,” the wonky maypole I had rigged up in the yard.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2024
The traditional Scandinavian holiday of Midsummer welcomes it with maypole dancing, drinking, and romance.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 19, 2023
Rather, it’s when a birch tree maypole descends from the skies and Soo leads the chorus in an exhilarating “The Lusty Month of May.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023
There was the Distaff Dance, a maypole without men, held in the spring.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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