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.

There’s nothing like mounting a horse, tossing your head back, and riding off in the California surf. Unless, of course, your horse is handcrafted by Torah ark woodcarvers, and mounted to a pole in ...

This is one of the jockeys on horseback that Bryce Muir carved and, his wife remembers, installed in the Wilkes-Barre area during the 1990s. Margaret “Peggy” Muir reached out to the Times Leader ...

People sometimes ask Bill Schneider what he's going to do with the full-size wooden carousel horse he carved by hand last summer. "That wasn't the point," said Schneider, a retired NASA engineer. "I ...

Many years ago, Norman Alexander received a book of painted ponies captured in photographs from his wife, and as he studied the photos, he realized he could create carousel horses through wood carving ...

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What better present or memento could there be for a newlywed couple than a copy of Horse & Hound with themselves on the cover? And not just any old copy of H&H, this one was created from a block of ...