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Kind of gives new meaning to the term Banned in Boston...

The Merrymount section of Quincy, MA is named for the the May Day events that took place on
1624...

May 1: The Maypole at Mare Mount. In what is now Quincy, Mass., Thomas Morton and others set up a May Pole, engaged in drinking and dancing with Indian women, and celebrated "the feasts of the Roman Goddes Glora, or the beastly practises of the Madd Bacchinalians," according to Massachusetts Governor William Bradford. Morton was deported to England.

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/chron17.cfm

The Revels at Merry Mount (and Morton's account)

THE inhabitants of Pasonagessit (having translated the name of their inhabitation from that ancient savage name to Ma-re Mount; and being resolved to have the new name confirmed for a memorial to after ages) did devise amongst themselves to have it performed in a solemn manner with revels and merriment after the old English custom, prepared to set up a May-pole upon the festival day of Philip and Jacob; and therefore brewed a barrel
of excellent beer, and provided a case of bottles to be spent, with other good cheer, for all comers of that day. And because they would have it in a complete form, they had prepared a song fitting to the time and present occasion.

And upon May-day they brought the May-pole to the place appointed, with drums, guns, pistols, and other fitting intruments, for that purpose; and there erected it with the help of savages, that came thither of purpose to see the manner of our revels. A goodly pine tree of eighty feet long, was reared up, with a pair of buck's horns
nailed on, somewhat near unto the top of it: where it stood as a fair seamark for directions how to find out the way to mine host of Ma-re Mount.

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/19-mor.html
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