Evelyn Chism leaned into a black metal fence, eyes peering at a fish-horse. The Chisms were up from Eugene on Saturday, Aug. 20 specifically to see 40 wooden creatures rising and plunging on brass ...

ALBANY, Ore. — Step into a world of whimsy. A world of childhood memories. A world where animals come to life, and every single one has a personal, family story. It's the story of Albany. A city that ...

Historic carousel pieces displayed in the Historic Carousel & Museum. The Albany Carousel is in the making in downtown Albany. (Terry Richard/staff) In the center of Oregon's Willamette Valley, Albany ...

Yun Hsiang, a blue dragon, was installed at the Albany Historic Carousel & Museum on Saturday. The donors say it represents harmony and unity. (Troy Shinn, Mid-Valley Media) Troy Shinn covers ...

ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — The sponsors had ideas. The carvers and painters brought them to life. But the designs for each of the animals that will one day hold a place on Albany's downtown carousel came ...

You'd be hard-pressed to find another carousel as colorful or creative as the one now spinning in Albany. With historic machinery and a whimsical herd of new animals – all painstakingly carved by hand ...

Artists and carvers working on Albany’s carousel are used to visitors wandering by as they gouge and sand and scrape. Most of the time, however, those visitors aren’t carrying bazooka-sized cameras ...

But Albany’s Historic Carousel & Museum surely owned that title this weekend, as staff and volunteers celebrated something old and something new. It definitely put a broad grin on executive director ...

In Albany, one woman decided that the historic downtown needed a brand new carousel. In Albany, one woman decided that the historic downtown needed a brand new carousel, featuring a broad range of ...

ALBANY — It takes a visitor one ride on Albany Historic Carousel’s Harriette the Frog to understand that merry-go-rounds are playgrounds for children of all ages. A frog wearing a straw hat and ...

Harry Lagerstedt just had to come by to see how Buck was doing. Lagerstedt, 95, is a Navy veteran well-known to followers of Albany’s legendary Veterans Day parade. He also is sponsoring one of the ...

In a secret storage locker in North Portland, Stephanie Brown pulls back dusty plastic sheeting to reveal a herd of painted ponies. They’re members of the Jantzen Beach carousel menagerie, and they’ve ...