Paula wrote > on May >1, we girls would get to wear beautiful white gossamer dresses and dance > >around the Maypole (younger classes did miscellaneous skits, I think). > But >then, sometime early that spring, we were told--there would be no Maypole; > >there would be May Day in the public schools there, any more, because May >Day >was (guess what) a Communist thing. Paula I had a similar experience growing up in Los Angeles at Burnside Elem. School. On Mayday, we had the maypole and wove the ribbons danced around and had races (wheel barrow, running w/ eggs ) . We were divided into two teams the reds and the whites. One year our mayday celebration was also stopped . We still had sports, but no more reds. It became the whites and the blues. Roz
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