My mathematics blog exists, so that's nice to know. Here's some pictures from the Merry-Go-Round Museum as we saw it in October.
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bunnyhugger looks over the skeleton riding one of the carousel horses. This was a new feature this year (so far as I know), adding a bit of seasonal decoration even to the exhibits.
The picture hung from the ceiling that you could see last shot, a painting(?) of a carousel spinning fast enough the horses are flying out of the image.
Some of the horses and one of the heads-on-a-shield. The leftmost horse is a C W Parker carving; not sure about the shield or the other horses.
Puppet stage set up inside the event room.
The other end of the event room has a horse you can only see by attending an event or poking into the open door.
A nice sign for the C W Parker Company, which made a lot of the less-fancy but durable travelling carousels. Crossroads Village, which we'll visit this month if everything allows, has a Parker carousel that it runs at a healthy and fun six rotations per minute.
A quick glance at their own carousel, with the family of sea serpents; they regard the horses as kind of al having Scooby-Doo faces which ... is more obvious on the pink one, I guess.
A circa 1900 horse by Armitage-Herschell. I don't know that the paint is original but it's a good example of being worn. I don't remember seeing this before.
Another antique horse in rough shape. I believe this is another new piece (on display at least) and from the seams you can make out the way a horse was carved of blocks and how its center is basically a hollow rectangular box.
Inner housing panel from 1910 carved by Gustav Dentzel's company. Native Americans riding horses were always a popular theme. I don't know that anyone ever asked the Native Americans if they wanted to be depicted this way. (But it's quite possible they had ones in to model. Also quite possible they had a very white guy put on a stage costume and pose.)
I don't know the story of this horse, but can surmise we wouldn't have a plaster white horse covered with signatures unless it were some kind of charity or goodwill thing. Also note on the back that replica of the convention for the 1974 National Carousel Roundtable Conference in Flint, the one where --- I assume among other things --- Robert A Long gave that talk about his family's involvement in the carousel business.
Trivia: About 129,000 tons of freight were carried to ships from the New York City docks in 1974. This was less than a tenth the load carried in 1970, and a fiftieth of what was moved in 1960. Source: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Marc Levinson.
Currently Reading: Bizarro #10, Dan Piraro. This isn't actually a huge pile of comic books --- it's a slender book, really --- just I haven't had reading time the last couple days.
