The Denzel American Carousel Museum in Albany, Oregon opened in 2005. I went in to play with my camera, and came away with a much greater appreciation for carousels, along with the local people who are working so hard on a very cool project. I met the woman, who after riding a carousel in Missoula (and catching several brass rings), felt that Albany needed a carousel museum. She contacted the family of Gustav Dentzel about the project, and the family donated an old mechanism from an…
