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Berkshire Carousel
United States
Приєднався 24 вер 2012
The Berkshire Carousel is a community project designed to create an authentic classic wooden carousel that is both a work of art and a wonderful form of family entertainment.
The project involves hundreds of volunteers from Berkshire County who are carving, sanding, and painting the carousel ponies and creating the artwork to be featured on the ride. The Berkshire Carousel will be the most ambitious and largest permanent artwork ever created in the Berkshires. The Carousel is to be completed in 2014.
All the 40 ponies are being hand carved by volunteers working with professional carvers.
The ponies are being modeled after classical figures made in the USA during the Golden Age of Carousels (1880 - 1930). The ponies will reflect the styles of the major carvers of the time period.
The project involves hundreds of volunteers from Berkshire County who are carving, sanding, and painting the carousel ponies and creating the artwork to be featured on the ride. The Berkshire Carousel will be the most ambitious and largest permanent artwork ever created in the Berkshires. The Carousel is to be completed in 2014.
All the 40 ponies are being hand carved by volunteers working with professional carvers.
The ponies are being modeled after classical figures made in the USA during the Golden Age of Carousels (1880 - 1930). The ponies will reflect the styles of the major carvers of the time period.
The Berkshire Carousel Assembly 2016
We are a 501(C)3 Non Profit that has been working over the years to build forty hand carved and hand painted horses for our refurbished Classic Carouse. We have had hundreds of volunteers participate in the creation process of these horses. Our volunteers, we fondly refer to as our Carousel Crew painted and decorated our entire refurbished carousel components.
Our Carousel Crew has been working hard with Todd and Ralph to get our carousel set up. The guys have been building the carousel from the ground up and piece by piece. They had to build our carousel first with all of its' pieces and parts, it is truly an amazing piece of engineering to watch in action. Then they installed rounding boards, inner panel paintings, and mirrors and also started installing the horses and the setting up the chariot locations and the spinning tub locations on our beautiful new wooden floor.
Here is a video courtesy of Volunteer Bruce Goguen showing the creation and happenings down at our carousel building. 32 horses, 1 donkey, 2 chariots, 1 spinning tub. The horses not placed on the carousel at this time for the first spin, will get a chance to ride as well and be rotated in and out as time goes on.
Our Executive Director Maria says "We can now say it has happened! We have a Berkshire Carousel!! Located here in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in Berkshire County. We still have a lot of work to do on our building and more phases to go! We would like to invite you in the near future to Come Along for the Ride and join us as we complete our journey..
We will be announcing sometime soon our Opening Day plans... so stay tuned for more information as we move forward.
If you would like to make a donation to support The Berkshire Carousel please go to our website: www.berkshirecarousel.com
or contact our Executive Director Maria Caccaviello 413.499.0457 or: contact@berkshirecarousel.com
See updates from our workshop which is helping support the carousel by doing private commissions, restorations, and other exciting projects. Follow us on our Facebook Fan page:
TheBerkshireCarousel/
Our Carousel Crew has been working hard with Todd and Ralph to get our carousel set up. The guys have been building the carousel from the ground up and piece by piece. They had to build our carousel first with all of its' pieces and parts, it is truly an amazing piece of engineering to watch in action. Then they installed rounding boards, inner panel paintings, and mirrors and also started installing the horses and the setting up the chariot locations and the spinning tub locations on our beautiful new wooden floor.
Here is a video courtesy of Volunteer Bruce Goguen showing the creation and happenings down at our carousel building. 32 horses, 1 donkey, 2 chariots, 1 spinning tub. The horses not placed on the carousel at this time for the first spin, will get a chance to ride as well and be rotated in and out as time goes on.
Our Executive Director Maria says "We can now say it has happened! We have a Berkshire Carousel!! Located here in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in Berkshire County. We still have a lot of work to do on our building and more phases to go! We would like to invite you in the near future to Come Along for the Ride and join us as we complete our journey..
We will be announcing sometime soon our Opening Day plans... so stay tuned for more information as we move forward.
If you would like to make a donation to support The Berkshire Carousel please go to our website: www.berkshirecarousel.com
or contact our Executive Director Maria Caccaviello 413.499.0457 or: contact@berkshirecarousel.com
See updates from our workshop which is helping support the carousel by doing private commissions, restorations, and other exciting projects. Follow us on our Facebook Fan page:
TheBerkshireCarousel/
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Impossible? The Berkshire Carousel is possible!
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The Berkshire Carousel is a community project to create an authentic classic wooden carousel that is both a work of art and a wonderful form of family entertainment in Western Massachusetts. The idea originated with founders Jim Shulman and Jackie Shulman after attending a graduation ceremony and listening to Christopher Reeve (who played the superhero Superman in the original movies on the big...
Berkshire Carousel Video.wmv
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This video and photo presentation was a collaborative effort of volunteers of the Berkshire Carousel Workshop located in Lanesborough, MA at the Berkshire Mall. Maria Caccaviello The Director of the Berkshire Carousel and Sherri Johnson provided the photographs used in the video. Sherri Johnson edited and produced the video after filming the footage at the Berkshire Carousel workshop. We thank ...