May Day The history of May Day.

May Day means different things to different countries - it's actually a different public holiday depending on where you live. In many countries, May Day is celebrated as Labor Day (a day of celebrations organized by unions, political groups and activists)

May Day marks the beginning of farmable spring in the Northern hemisphere.

May Day is most closely associated with Easter - when small baskets of sweets and/or flowers were usually left secretly on neighbors doorsteps.

The earliest May Day celebration appeared BC, with the festival of Flora (the Roman Goddess of flowers). In Europe and America, May Day tradition involves dancing around the Maypole and crowning of the "Queen of the May."

May 1 was one of the most important holidays for the Druids of the British Isles. The day was thought to divide the year in half. The other half ended at Samhain on November 1st.

Now… You are going to make a May Day basket for someone in our community that we will deliver on Friday.

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