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PITTSFIELD — The unnamed carousel horse was on its death bed upon arrival at the Berkshire Carousel workshop. The wooden equine was in 20 pieces and missing part of a rear leg. "He was a mess. He didn ...
I never thought that two wooden horses discovered in a museum in Chantilly, France, could set in motion such a flood of Pennsylvania memories. Thanks to two carousel horses, hand-carved at the ...
The show is a small, selective, handsomely mounted exhibition featuring 13 horses and eight “menagerie ... the endangered status of the antique wooden carousel — there are said to be ...
People sometimes ask Bill Schneider what he's going to do with the full-size wooden carousel horse he carved by hand ... Left brain, right brain "But all of my life has been on the technical ...
the wood on some cracked down to the hindquarters. But a carousel horse whisperer – Wichitan Marlene Irvin, who rode the horses as a child – is bringing them, one by one, back to a new life ...
Alas for that endangered species: the wooden carousel horse ... were hired to carve the amazingly life-like horses that reared and strained and champed at the bit. The Dentzel and Philadelphia ...
You can almost hear the whinny of the carousel ... back to life with his painting skills. Donaldson has been commissioned to restore the brilliant colours on five full-size carousel horses ...