In the trenches of Con Thien, Vietnam, a Marine Corps corporal used to quietly sit and dream about a carousel in a mountain ...

This is a routine Means, 79, has kept for the last 27 years, carving a collection of large, whimsical animals in hopes of one day creating a carousel for a special place in Middle Tennessee.

SODDY DAISY, Tenn. • Bud Ellis, founder of Horsin’ Around Carousel Carving School in Soddy Daisy, Tenn. (just north of Chattanooga), says with a smile that “if you can walk ...

Five Points South has become home to one of the few carousel carving schools in the nation. Ira Chaffin works on a carousel animal at his carving school on Birmingham's Southside. (The Birmingham ...

Gerry Holzman is a master figure carver who has restored over 100 pieces of antique carousel art, created 250 pieces of original carousel carving, and was the head carver and executive director of ...

The Adirondack Carousel will be installed in Saranac Lake once 20 characters are ready. It will hold 23 in the end, with 17 ready by this fall.

The carousel is located in the Willowbrook section of the Greenbelt property, and opens again on May 1, with the season going through October. The two minute ride costs $1.50 per person, and is ...

The Empire State carousel is in storage, and Holzman has been searching for a good home for it. Even while he was undertaking the 16-year project, Holzman would travel the country and share his ...