A storm in July 2023 was especially destructive as it blew through Glen Echo Park in Montgomery County, Maryland, toppling trees and knocking out the power at the park for about a week. A sprinkler ...

The National Park Service, which owns the carousel, contracted and paid for the repairs. Carousels and Carvings in Ohio completed the repairs. The carousel is known as a "menagerie carousel" due to ...

I visited Maryland's Glen Echo Park, where some attractions are frozen in time, while others have been turned into local art ...

The carousel in Glen Echo Park in Glen Echo, Maryland, and the carousel originally in Rocky Springs Park, south of Lancaster city, were both manufactured in the early 1900s by G.A. Dentzel Co. in ...

Ilana Trachtman was thinking of getting married at a theme park. Well, a former one. Glen Echo Park hadn't been an amusement park since 1968, but it had transitioned into a cultural destination for ...

As teenagers and Washingtonians in the 1950s, James and Tina Short wanted to visit Glen Echo Park. They watched television commercials and had visions of swimming in the crystal pool, lying on the ...

Spinning around on the Glen Echo carousel one recent Saturday was a lovely sight -- blacks and whites together, laughing and talking, joking about their gray hair and how much has changed in the 50 ...

On June 30, 1960, a group of Black college students took a ride on the carousel at Maryland's Glen Echo Park and refused to get off. Five students were arrested that day, but demonstrations calling ...