Enjoy that 8-hour a day work week? Celebrate May Day!
I remember celebrating May Day as a kid. We would make construction paper cones with a pipe cleaner hanger and decorate it with ribbons. Then we would go to a field and pick wild flowers (I even remember doing some with flower out of the yard), wrap them in wet newspaper and wax paper and then put them in the cone. We hung them on the doors of neighbors, rang the bell and then ran to hide. It seems so simple, but we had so much fun with it! I don’t know how we came to celebrate May Day so much since most of the US doesn’t (the Puritans were NOT amused by it) but perhaps it was because Garden City, KS had a rather large German population.
May Day was originally a fertility celebration of the pagans that was around long before Christianity. It was an important holiday for the Romans who dedicated the day to ‘Flora’, the goddess of flowers. During the reign of the Puritans, the celebration was discouraged, but it was still an important holiday in Europe when they fell out of power.
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