The Western Elstons, pictured here at Simon’s Tavern, play Saturday at the daylong Maypole Folk Festival. Credit: Rebecca Ciprus The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we ...

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.

The annual weekend-long celebration of ancient May Day traditions left attendees refreshed and rejuvenated — and exhausted from a weekend of running around in the sun and dancing around a fire at ...

In a nod to the past — the very old past — the village of Orland Park hosted a May Day celebration Saturday. The spring celebration can be traced back to Roman times, but the village’s historical ...

What better way to usher in the summer than a picnic on the grounds of the Beaumont Botanical Gardens while children play, and dancers wrap brightly colored ribbons around a Maypole? After a two-year ...

It Takes a Village, the Semper Fidelis Club's 26th annual Maypole Festival, will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Broadway Presbyterian Church, 710 23rd St., Rock Island.

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) — The Wando-Huger Community Development Corporation is inviting you to a special Maypole Celebration. As a way to come together and celebrate your communities diversity.

The Semper Fidelis Club will host its 23rd annual Maypole Fest from 6 to 8 p.m. May 10 with the theme “World of Rainbows.” Children 5 to 12 years old are eligible to participate in the event that will ...

Visitors to Geneva Sunday had a chance to channel their inner Viking during the 113th Swedish Day Midsummer Festival at Good Templar Park. The festival celebrates the Scandinavian celebration of ...

The 27th annual Maypole Festival presented by the Semper Fidelis Club of the Quad-Cities will be held Friday. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 323 W. 11th St ...