SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  
To: Grainne who wrote (27592)1/4/1999 5:16:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Christine Grace -- About Maypoles and Mayday

I remember 36 years ago when my son was required to participate in what I feared was an ancient pagan ceremonial of May Day in an English day school. While state subsidies were involved, and the English had no concept of a wall of separation, I soon learned that May Day and the May Pole were neither a Christian or Pagan ceremonial, but was a Socialist ceremony. May 1 (or May Day) was adopted by international social and communist organizations in memorial to the American labor and anarchist martyrs at Haymarket Square massacre in Chicago.
The formerly phallic maypole which celebrated creative and fructifying nature was gradually transmuted into a symbol of the newly self-liberated working man, casting off the bonds of industrial servitude, and standing unmewed, his fists raised against all oppressors provided a noble model for small children who were connected by ribbons of sympathy to the globe atop the pole. Having learned this, both I and my son, as good Americans, were eager to participate.
Report TOU ViolationShare This Post
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  

HomeMailHotSubjectMarksPeopleMarksKeepersSettings
Terms Of UseContact UsCopyright/IP PolicyPrivacy PolicyAbout UsFAQAdvertise on SI
© 2026 Knight Sac Media.  Data provided by Twelve Data, Alpha Vantage, and CityFALCON News