Imagine a hot, humid August afternoon in a simpler time, when weekends were still reserved for families. The old horse-drawn trolleys that once carried Pittsfield, Mass., residents from their homes to ...

Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae star in an image from the 1956 big-screen adaptation of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical 'Carousel.' (Twentieth Century Fox via Fathom Events) Six decades after it ...

The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is celebrating the 100th year of the Looff carousel this week. It was August of 1911 when Danish carousel woodcarver Charles Looff delivered a merry-go-round he hand ...

People with fond memories of Happy Hollow Park & Zoo may have a flashback Saturday at Hoot & Howl, the Happy Hollow Foundation’s annual grown-up fundraiser at the San Jose park. Original figures from ...

Lee Cervantes still dreams of carousels. The brightly colored horses rising up and down to the sweet pangs of calliope music. The light bulb-lined canopies showcasing their counterclockwise gallop ...

— Jay Berkow, director of the upcoming Western Michigan University musical “Carousel,” is hoping to treat audiences to a unique environment even before the show begins. “It’s about redemption, it’s ...

Here’s some old school fun that never goes out of style. Your kids will love to take a ride on one of these classic carousels that delight all ages. Chicagoland has several carousels that offer both a ...

January may not be the cruelest month, but it can get pretty bleak out there, so it’s good to have not one but two movies with music in their blood to help us forget the chill outside. The 1956 film ...

The new version of “Carousel” is possibly the best sung, best danced revival to hit Broadway in recent memory, and that’s a memory that goes back to the last few decades of the previous century. I ...