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Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The May-Pole of Merry Mount" is about a maypole celebration in 17th century Massachusetts that gets rudely interrupted and ended by John Endicott and his Puritans. What do we know about the people of Merry Mount at this time? Were maypoles to be found elsewhere in the colonies

by /u/Paulie_Gatto in /r/AskHistorians

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