Built in 1910 by famed carousel maker Charles Carmel, the antique features hand-carved wooden horses and traditions like the ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Intricately hand-carved carousel horses, tigers and bears and exquisitely rendered circus posters evoking a bygone era of the fairground as a Disney-esque attraction are going on the ...

The Crazy Horse monument in March 2012. When finished, it is expected to be 641 feet long and 563 feet high. It is the largest mountain carving in progress. South Dakota is famously home to Mount ...

ROBSTOWN - Jesse Laing whittled his first horse from a chunk of wood before age 10. Then he crafted a wagon for it from a sardine can. "I'm crazy about horses," said Laing, 88, as he swooshed his hand ...

Although it will take him six months to finish carving his wooden carousel horse, Maryland artist Stanley Schaper said the process is fairly simple. “All you do is cut off what doesn’t look like a ...

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 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 wall mount includes a starting gate for the two jockeys and horses. Margaret “Peggy” Muir reached out to the Times Leader recently, wondering if our readers might help her solve a mystery: Are the ...

A colossal monument of the Lakota warrior chief in South Dakota is 64 years in the making. Problems in the underlying rock are forcing the... The Slow Carving Of The Crazy Horse Monument South Dakota ...

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South Dakota is famously home to Mount Rushmore, but it's also been making room for a second colossal mountain carving that, when finished, will dwarf the four presidents. The sculpture in progress is ...

Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, who started the Crazy Horse memorial in 1948, smokes a cigarette near a crate of dynamite on a bluff of the Black Hills in 1950. A 1/34th scale model of what the Crazy ...