http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Maypole Posts tagged with 'Maypole' at MetaFilter. Thu, 01 May 2008 04:20:07 -0800 Thu, 01 May 2008 04:20:07 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/71296/Winding%2Dthe%2DMay%2DPole <a href="http://www.lyndonirwin.com/maypole.htm">May Day celebrations of yesteryear.</a> We never danced around the Maypole, but we did make <a href="http://basketmakers.com/topics/seasonal/mayday/frprojmaybasket.htm">May Day baskets</a> for our elderly female neighbors and hang them on their doors. <a href="http://www.virtual-knutsford.co.uk/frameset.php?main=/mayday/mayday_past.htm">Some</a> people still <a href="http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/mayday.htm">celebrate</a> by dancing around the Maypole. They say the holiday has its roots in Roman mythology, specifically, to honor the goddess <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/rome/a/ludiflorales.htm">Flora</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.71296 Thu, 01 May 2008 04:20:07 -0800 Holiday MayDay Maypole Marie Mon Dieu http://www.metafilter.com/33153/Thomas%2DMorton <a href="http://members.aol.com/srasmus/oldentext/merrymount.html">The Pagan Pilgrim:</a> <a href="http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/morton.htm">Thomas Morton</a> and the <a href="http://members.aol.com/srasmus/oldentext/more_merrymount.html">Maypole</a> of <a href="http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/mmm.html">Merrymount</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.33153 Mon, 17 May 2004 21:40:16 -0800 Maypole Paganism Puritanism homunculus