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.

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 ...

Today is Wednesday, May 28, the 148th day of 2025. There are 217 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed ...

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 ...

Alas, another May is slipping away, and I haven't followed up with a long-ago maypole dance I once thought to conduct for the little local boys and girls. There were plenty of them around then. They ...

Swedish Midsommar will bring a little paganism to the precincts of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd on Tuesday. Festivities begin at 12:30 p.m. with women making wildflower wreaths to wear in ...

Everybody can be Swedish for a day during Bishop Hill's Midsommar Music Festival, starting at 10 a.m. Saturday. The event will feature music, food, and Swedish culture. ``One will have the opportunity ...

Swedish Midsommar will bring a little paganism to the precincts of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd on Tuesday. Festivities begin at 12:30 p.m. with women making wildflower wreaths to wear in ...

First-graders from Anne Goddard's classroom at Ocean Crest Elementary dressed in their most colorful clothing and traipsed to City Park Tuesday afternoon to dance around a Maypole put up by city of ...