The Carousel News & Trader 2012

COVER: The Flying Horses 1876 Dare on Martha's Vineyard is the oldest platform carousel in the USA, and it even has two ring machines, Roland Hopkins photo

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk - Selling Your Collections

• Portland’s Jantzen Beach Parker Superior carousel - Last Ride?

• Letter to the Editor: Carousel Kangaroo Notes

• TRIBUTE: Remembering Walter Loucks, CNT Publisher, 1985-2005

• Notes from Marianne - Feature: Unique and Mysterious PTC #13 carousel

• Unraveling PTC #13 Mysteries by Barbara Williams

• Long Lost Carousel Photos: PTC #13

• Cover Feature: 1876 Dare Flying Horses - 128 Years in Oak Bluffs, on Martha’s Vineyard Island

• Don and Ruth Sinder’s Merry-Go-Art Post-Tornado Sale

• Carver: Jim Haessly

• The Monkees Last Ride on Belmont Looff in San Diego

COVER: The 100-year-old Burnaby Carousel in motion, photo by Bruce Irschick

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk: NEW Carousel Locator Map App!

• John Caruso’s Visit to the Reopened Forest Park D. C. Muller Carousel

• Riding With the Rabbit - Visit to the Perrons and PTC #15

• The Sultan’s Merry-Go-Round

• Annual Spin for Historic Steam Machines

• A Trip to Bickleton, WA, Rodeo and Picnic

• New England Carousel Museum New Carousel in Place

• Jantzen Beach’s Precious Superior Parker Future Uncertain

• Cover Feature: C. W. Parker Carousel #119 Turns 100 at Burnaby Museum in Canada

• Michigan’s Crossroads Village C. W. Parker Centennial Celebration

• The C. W. Parker Museum Looks at the Mechanism Mystery

• Restoring Two Baby Parker Ponies to Original Paint

• CMMI 2012 Miniatures Convention Joins Crossroads Celebration

COVER: Marianne Stevens, carousel lover, historian, founding member of the NCA and ACS, co-author of Painted Ponies, and so much more, captured here in her home workshop, Bill Manns photo

CONTENTS:

• From Dan’s Desk: IAAPA 2012

• Riding With the Rabbit: Carousel Toys From the Past

• Jane’s Carousel Reopens after Hurricane Sandy

• Good Things for Semaphore Beach in 2013

• Semaphore Beach and Australia’s Other Antique Carousel Treasures Include

• PTC #30 and Many More

• Friends and Readers Pay Tribute to Marianne Stevens

• CN&T Through the Years

• Book Review: “Where Horses Fly”

• 1,000s of Summit Carousel Ornaments to Sandusky

• Lake Compounce Adds Holiday Lights

• Ken Means Carousel and Carving Exhibit