Domestic violence, suicide, bullying—Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s 1945 musical Carousel is as famous for its dark subject matter as its soaring score. (My high school graduation featured ...

The city of Los Angeles’ Recreation and Parks Department is planning on buying the historic carousel that entertained children and celebrities for nearly a century in Griffith Park. On Thursday, Aug.

The Richland Carousel Park has been in downtown Mansfield since 1991. The business that hand-carved the figurines has shut down. The heart of Mansfield, in north-central Ohio, isn’t a city hall or a ...

Songs about home, about God. Banjos and fiddles, acoustic guitar and mandolins. Serious dancing shoes. Serious harmonizing. Serious picking. But the dancing is all in fun. Other WRAL Top Stories ...

Maykel Paguay has spent years waiting to ride the carousel in Flushing Meadows Park. It’s not for lack of courage, he clarifies. He just wasn’t tall enough — but he’s over 42 inches now — an older, ...

One of the treats of kids of our vintage was riding on a merry-go-round if you could find a dime during a county fair or a carnival coming to town. If I found one today I could afford to ride but the ...

July 25 has been recognized as National Carousel Day since 2014. Though William Schneider of Davenport, Iowa, was issued the first American patent for a carousel in 1871, carousels have been spinning ...