May Day

When I was growing up you made a kind of basket filled it full of flowers, rang the doorbell and ran. I think that during World War two it mean't your plane was in trouble. Now when I was in kindergarten I went to a school across the street from my parent's house that had been changed into a Junior High and the had added a gym west of thte school. My kindergarten class had a MayPole dance on the roof of the gym. I think the center of the pole must have been a basketball item but they had added crepe paper strips. We wore lovely crepe paper outfits and danced in and out of each other. I was gorgeous and have a picture someplace in my scrapbook wherever that is. We were about eight feet over their heads. Later when one of our daughters was ill a Brownie group brought her a May basket with candy in and some of my granddaughters have made me a few since and giggled a lot. That was more fun they having your airplane go down or a message you were in trouble. I notice in the news that one of Kansas City's private schools was having one so maybe it still exsisted.