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| New England Carousel Museum Turns 20 |
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New England Carousel Museum Celebrating 20th Anniversary
By Louise DeMars
Bristol, CT – The New England Carousel Museum is celebrating its 20th anniversary as a non-profit educational (and fun) organization this year. Special events are being planned throughout the year to celebrate this milestone. Twenty years ago, the Museum was a tenant in the building and they owned one horse. Today, the museum owns the building and they are accumulating a substantial collection of their own. They have come a long way.
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| 100 Years at Slater Park for 1985 Looff |
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100 Years in RI for Slater Park Looff Carousel
By Roland Hopkins
Pawtucket, RI – To call the Slater Park Carousel a “carousel of distinction” would be an understatement. It is, in fact, a historic carousel of many distinctions. Yet, like many of our greatest historic carousels, Slater Park does not tout themselves; they just perform year after year. This year, the Slater Park Looff will celebrate 100 years in the same location and building. That is distinction number one. They do not boast this, they just do it. So, I shall boast for them.
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| Annual Circus Model Gathering in Upstate NY |
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Circus Model Builders visit Herschell Museum
By Patrick Wentzel
This was the first time a Circus Model Builders (CMB) display was held at the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum (HCFM). CMB member Patrick Wentzel and wife Brenda hosted the gathering in conjunction with the HCFM. The HCFM is the only carousel manufacturing facility left from the golden age of carousels.
The museum features two operating antique carousels, exhibit galleries, a childrens’ workshop, a working display of Wurlitzer band organ roll manufacturing equipment and a fine gift shop. If you are in the North Tonawanda or Niagara Falls area, a stop at the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum is a must.
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| NCA Heads To Spokane and Beyond |
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NCA 2010 Convention - Carousels of Discovery
By Don Largent
The theme for this year’s NCA Convention, September 21-26, 2010, is “Carousels of Discovery” as it will criss-cross the trail of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in their quest to map a new pathway to the Pacific in 1803. With journals filled with over 1 million words, maps, and illustrations, the Lewis and Clark Expedition experienced and reported on the greatest road trip in American history. Expecting an easy water voyage to their destination, they would soon struggle to find an easier route over the Rockies. They would name the uncharted rivers, valleys and new species of flora and fauna of the Louisiana Purchase in an area that would be soon known as the Pacific Northwest.
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| Carousel News & Trader Forum |
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Allan Herschell Shields; Redondo Looff Carousel...
Dear CN&T,
I have recently came into possession of some hand-painted cast iron (or some other cast metal) faces that used to reside on the old carousel in the Baltimore Zoo in Maryland. I’m trying to find out as much information as I can about where they came from, where on the carousel they were placed, and hopefully find a photo of the carousel itself. However, I’m having a hard time finding any information on the carousel, and I was hoping to maybe gain a bit of guidance. Any help that you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely, Jeremy Klinger
These are Allan Herschell shield faces of which there were four designs – the indian, the woman, the prince and the king. They were attached to the center of the shield and were surrounded by carvings of scrolls and leaf shapes. Sometimes these were painted on instead of being carved.
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| A Look Back at the Man and the Builder |
 | M.D. Borrelli, MFG of High Grade Carousels
By William Benjamin, Ph.D.,
and Barbara Williams
In our previous article in The Carousel News and Trader (January, 2010) concerning Frederick Dolle, we included valuable insights about Dolle that were detailed in a letter that M.D. Borrelli sent to Frederick Fried in 1963. This letter was obtained from the Frederick and Mary Fried Folk Art Archives located in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. We referred to this as the “Borrelli letter”.
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 | Dolle Article Uncovers History on Borrelli-Carmel Horses
By Leah Farnsworth
On a cool March day in 1981, we arrived at the docks of a freight company near Milwaukee, WI. My husband, Peter, and I were there with a trailer to pick up a crate from Oregon. Inside was a large Borrelli-Carmel stander that I had purchased from a friend in Portland. I wanted to know its history.
In her 1983 book, The Art of the Carousel, the late Charlotte Dinger has a photo of this horse in park paint on the Ocean City, NJ, Playland Pier carousel. Charlotte told us that it was
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| Bushnell Park S&G, Rye Carmel... |
 | The Best of the Best Carousels, Part 2
By Marianne Stevens
To continue with my list of the carousels that I believe to be the best of their kind: for Carmel, I would choose Rye Playland in Rye, NY. Although there are several other nice Carmels in existence, including Knoebel’s Grove in PA, and Lighthouse Point in CT, the quality of the carving is outstanding on Rye’s carousel. The very beautiful horses are bedecked with roses, eagles, rabbits, et al. This machine belongs to the municipality, so perhaps it is safer than most.
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| From Dan's Desk |
 | Berkshire, Three Rivers, Historic English Carousel...
By Dan Horenberger
(March 15, 2010)
Berkshire Finishes their First Horse and Wins Grant
The future carousel in Pittsfield, MA, held an open house for the dedication of Kali, the first carousel pony fully carved, painted and jeweled for the carousel being built by county-wide volunteers over the next three years.
The armored pony was modeled after one carved by famed carver John Zalar in 1910. Zalar worked for carousel/builder Charles Looff in Coney Island. The original figure was on a carousel tha
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