Here's where all $10 million of Watkins Glen's DRI award was spent as the final project is now open to the public.

Lakeside Park in Fond du Lac will be getting a new permanent building to house its carousel. Construction on the building will begin in late summer 2025 and continue into the fall. The carousel ...

Prior to cranking up the carousel, a Glen Echo Park Civil Rights and History Tour will set out at 10 a.m. More to see and do on Saturday: short films featuring Folklife Apprenticeships and Heritage ...

Keep horsing around at Glen Echo Park’s Dentzel Carousel, which will begin spinning for its 104th year. The painted ponies are the stars of Carousel Day, and rides are just $2 (all-day passes ...

They were kids. But the time that they spent nearly 65 years ago marching against segregation in the Maryland summer heat with their friends, families and neighbors shaped their lives. Edith ...

completed the restoration. Todd W. Goings founded the company, a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellow. Glen Echo Park’s menagerie carousel features 52 animals ...

The carousel is known as a "menagerie carousel" due to the variety of its animals. The Glen Echo Park carousel includes 52 animals: 40 horses, four rabbits, four ostriches, one giraffe ...

WUSA-TV Washington, D.C. Posted: March 11, 2025 | Last updated: March 11, 2025 After nearly two years, Glen Echo Park's historic carousel is welcoming back some of its animals. House cancels rest ...

when an interracial coalition of activists protested Glen Echo Amusement Park's segregationist policies. The campaign caused an instant stir with a June sit-in at the carousel. A group of Black ...

NEW YORK — Growing up in suburban Maryland, film director Ilana Trachtman was transfixed by the remains of a disused amusement park near her home. The Glen Echo Amusement Park had roller coaster ...

The Glen Echo Park Carousel reopened to the public on May ... Private citizens and foundations donated funds in support of a twenty-year restoration. Montgomery Parks' new historic site, Josiah ...