May Day

This weekend I came across a May Day Festival held in the small town on the Maryland eastern shore called Wye Mills.  We were promised wagons pulled by Clydesdales, a bake sale, church tours, a barn raising, and pole dancing (yes...this is how the advertisement was written.) 

When we arrived at the festival we were greeted by a lovely woman and gentleman.  They offered us some colonial hats to wear.  We wore them all day.

Then we were greeted with sights of a flower sale and wagons.  The fun activities that were included were churning butter and writing with a quill.  All this was done with the sounds of the band in the background.

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Building the barn for the barn raising

There was a tour for the old church that had been restored.  Services were held in the church beginning in the 1600's and continue today.  The church had booths that families would buy.  These were not just fashionable but functional.  The church did not have heating so the families would heat bricks in fire and place them under blankets to keep themselves warm.  I loved the idea of the church parishioners coming to church by boat!!! 

Near the church was the location of Maryland's state tree that fell down this past year.  It was 450 years old.  The church was given a cross made out of the wood of the tree. The cross now stands where the tree stood all those years.

At the end of the festival, there was pole dancing as promised.  May day pole dancing.  The May pole was amazingly made out of fresh flowers.  It was the most wonderful fragrance.  The children ran around the pole, quite haphazardly. 

On the way to lunch we visited the Wye Mill that still runs today. 

We stopped by the Stevensville Crab Shack.  It was hooked on to an auto shop.  We devoured two crabcake sandwiches that Trent professed "you can taste that it is fresh."  Not to mention that there was birch beer on tap! 

It was a wonderful May Day with a wonderful husband that seems to make all adventures perfect.