May Day

MAY DAY!
Today is May Day - May 1st! - Happy May Day!
I have a flashback to 1928. I was 9 years old, and in the fourth grade at Central school in Hillsdale, Michigan. Today was as exciting as Valentine’s Day!
We made May Baskets on our dining room table. Our Mother would buy the materials, pop the corn and make the fudge. She was also the teacher, and supervisor, of our making the baskets. We would cut the construction paper into shapes, which would be the baskets. Then, we would form the material into small baskets, and paste the corners. Then, cut strips from heavy paper, for the handles. Then, attach the handles to the baskets with small brass clasps. Then, we would cover the baskets, and handles, with bright-spring-colored crepe paper. The multi-colored -finished baskets were a sight to behold. Then, we would fill them with pop corn and fudge, and a few spring flowers on top. I can still picture the array of different colors sitting on the dining room table. It would have made a great picture, but we didn’t have colored film back then. I didn’t even have a camera.
We loaded the 20, or 25, baskets into cardboard mens'- suit boxes, and loaded them on the back seat of the car. My Dad then drove us around to deliver them to our friends’ homes. We would place a basket on the front porch - by the door - ring the doorbell - and run back to the car. (We didn’t put our names in the baskets.). When we returned home, we looked forward to finding some May Baskets waiting for us.
Happy May Day!