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Children dance around a maypole in a centuries-old tradition that is still thriving in eastern Europe. Maypoles are erected in villages across the region on the first of May in celebration of youth and the arrival of spring. (Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Czechoslovakia: The Dream and the Reality," February 1968, National Geographic magazine) Photograph by James P. Blair