Domestic violence, suicide, bullying—Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s 1945 musical Carousel is as famous for its dark subject matter as its soaring score. (My high school graduation featured ...

The Richland Carousel Park has been in downtown Mansfield since 1991. The business that hand-carved the figurines has shut down. The heart of Mansfield, in north-central Ohio, isn’t a city hall or a ...

Sadly, the merry-go-round has been closed for the past few years, to the dismay of local families and groups such as the Friends of Griffith Park, who point to the ride as a rare affordable attraction ...

Songs about home, about God. Banjos and fiddles, acoustic guitar and mandolins. Serious dancing shoes. Serious harmonizing. Serious picking. But the dancing is all in fun. Other WRAL Top Stories ...