Making May Baskets
On this dreary, rainy week, I decided to make May baskets. I remember making them as a child and leaving them on friends' door steps on May 1st. I even remember dancing around a Maypole festooned with streamers in elementary school. The celebration of May Day seems mostly forgotten now. The tradition of the May basket, as my British-born Mom and grandmother explained it, was to leave a basket at a friend's door, knock or ring the bell, and run away. May Baskets were supposed to be given…
Heather Lowe
