My Neighborhood

The Historic Carousel & Museum in downtown Albany, Oregon is a non-profit agency whose goal is create a carousel with all completely hand-crafted animals. The idea for the project started in 2002 based on inspirations from previous carousels in places such as Montana and even in Salem, Oregon. Eventually  the building will be torn down and rebuilt to house the entire carousel which will include 52 animals in 3 different rows ranging from large to medium to small animals. This photo was taken on Tuesday, November 10th inside the workshop of the museum.

Gary Richards is a volunteer and also a faculties/safety coordinator at the carousel's museum. In this photo Gary is demonstrating a small detail of what all goes into the carving of what will someday be a horse on the carousel. 

A photo of children playing at Lexington Park in Albany, Oregon on Tuesday, November 10th.