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 ...

Spring is in full bloom and we're halfway to summer. May 1, known as May Day, has long been celebrated as the midway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. Like those days, May Day ...

It's May 1st! Astronomically, that means that spring has just started, but, culturally, this is around the time when the northern hemisphere unofficially welcomes summer. For many years, people have ...