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May Festival

An annual gathering to celebrate Spring with Morris dancers, songs and dance around the Maypole, Quaker City pansies, and tea and snacks!

May 16th, 2026

10:30 Maypole dance

11:30 Morris dancers

12:00 Refreshments and pansy sale

Group of people, including children, dancing in a circle around a maypole with colorful ribbons on a grassy field, surrounded by trees.

Group of dancers in traditional attire performing outdoors with sticks

Outdoor market stall with pansies and fresh cider for sale, featuring a woman behind the table, and two people wearing hats and standing in front by a red building.

Group of men in traditional Morris dance attire performing with sticks outdoors, surrounded by onlookers.

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Orchard Hill, and New Hampshire in general, is a portion of the land known by the Abanaki nation as N'Dakinna, which means Homeland. It comprises an area that goes from Quebec in the north to Massachusetts in the south and from Maine in the east to New York in the west. Indigenous people have been living on this land for more than 12,000 years.

We are living, working, and playing here on N'Dakinna the unceded, stolen, ancestral, traditional land of the Abenaki people, currently known as the Koasek Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation. We are grateful for this land and have great respect for those who have loved and cared for it past, present, and future. We acknowledge that many of us are on this land because of violence and settler colonialism. We recognize that this land acknowledgement is a small but necessary step toward justice.

Learn more about the Ko’asek Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation here.

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