When Idlewild opens for the season, one person who will be there, as he has for nearly 50 years, is Ed Ostroski.

“To me, the real art in these (animals) is the carving. I try to enhance the carving.” Lise Liepman (pronounced Leeza Leapman) is so good at her craft that carousel animals — not only horses ...

Prospect Park Conservator Assya Plavskina giving one of the carousel horses a paint job. Photo courtesy of Assya Plavskina The carousel is one of the park’s most cherished and time-honored ...

Newly painted, Cody Park’s 24 carousel horses were revealed Friday. The carousel horses, which are 112 years old, were last ...

The culmination of months-long hard work and dedication was on display over the Memorial Day Weekend as hundreds gathered at ...

This column on the art of the carousel is in response to readers who asked how volunteers actually carved the horses on the Berkshire Carousel. Figure carving for carousels became a lost art in 1930.

The carousel can’t just be rebuilt in a field somewhere. It’s old, wooden and delicate; the wooden horses are cracked, and their paint is chipped. Restoring the ride to its former glory means ...

one of the few carousel restoration companies in the U.S. The team working on the lead horse made a remarkable discovery. Underneath decades-old paint jobs, they discovered a signature belonging ...