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Thread #10641   Message #221034
Posted By: GUEST,Okiemockbird
01-May-00 - 05:13 PM
Thread Name: Beltane/May Day-How do you celebrate?
Subject: RE: Beltane/May Day-How do youcelebrate?
Here is Thomas Morton's account of how he (an Anglican) introduced the maypole to New England in 1628 or so, and the reaction he got from the "precise separatists" of Plymouth.

T.