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 If it is May 1st, which it is, you can bet that there will be a celebration at the Free Union Country School in Free Union, Virginia.  The students, pre-school-5th grade, faculty , family and friends are still practicing the old tradition of dancing around the maypole. 

As you will see when you visit the Free Union Country School website:

“On May 1st each year, the school celebrates May Day, a festival that marks the arrival of spring. The day is filled with music and flowers and at the center of the celebration is an enormous maypole around which the children dance. Families enjoy picnic lunches on the playground after the dancing.”

It is always fun to see the youngest group; for them it is all about waving to the folks or weaving the ribbons as quickly as you can, possibly running down the person in front of you.  Isn’t this a great place to live.

Free Union country School is a private independent school to read what The Cavalier Daily says about the school read on.

I love parades in general and love the annual Dogwood Festival Parade in particular.  Every year I worry that the dogwoods won’t be in bloom in time for the parade and most years, like this one, I am rewarded with beautiful weather and trees in full bloom.  Growing up in Charlottesville means you have probably been in the parade; with the cub scouts, girl scouts, community groups of all sorts; or in a band.  My debut parade with the Albemarle High Band was unremarkable, I dropped my lyre holding the music in the first block and never played a note! Now you know why they have parents trailing behind the bands.  No doubt this year’s band members have memorized the music but I’ll bet they are just as excited as  I was.  If I had my pick of parade entries now, I would have to say I would want to be with the “Girl’s just Want to Have Fun” troupe.  They seem to be my contemporaries and seem to be kindred spirits.  Everyone has their favorite spot to see the parade but you will find me -every year- on the steps of the library with my sister, Joan  and anyone I can talk into joining me. See you at the Parade on Saturday April 26th- 11:00 kickoff.