May Festival on the Village Green, Greenfield, Michigan, May 24, 1930 (1930)

Approximately 250 children participate in traditional May Day festivities in Greenfield Village for an audience said to include Henry and Clara Ford and their guests. Some carry arches of flowers, some are in costume, some are part of the queen's court. Carol Bryant is crowned Queen of the May by Billy McLeod. Various old-fashioned dances are performed as taught by dance teacher and head of Greenfield Village Schools, Benjamin Lovett. Dances are also performed around a maypole, and all participants take part in dancing the quadrille. Closes with views of older children dancing in the Lovett Hall ballroom and an aerial view of Greenfield Village.
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Education

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• Benjamin Lovett
• Carol Bryant
• Billy McLeod
• May Day
• Greenfield Village
• Dearborn (Mich.)
• children
• dancing
• maypole
• flowers
• quadrille
• Lovett Hall
• ballroom
• Village Green
• scarf dance
• sailors hornpipe
• jockey song and dance