Merry Go Round
by Jenny Revitz Soper
Title
Merry Go Round
Artist
Jenny Revitz Soper
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Photograph - Photograph - Selectiv Color
Description
The oldest operating platform carousel in the United States named the "Flying Horses," dates from 1876 and is located on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. But, the earliest known use of the term "merry-go-round" is found in a poem, BARTLEME FAIR, written by Englishman George Alexander Stevens in 1729.
"Here's Whittington's cat, and the tall dromedary,
The chaise without horses, and Queen of Hungary;
The merry-go-rounds, come who rides, come who rides;
Wine, beer, ale, and cakes, fire-eating besides;
The fam'd learned dog that can tell all his letters,
And some men, as scholars, are not much his betters"
Ottoway Amusement Company's merry-go-round photographed at the Neewollah Festival, Independence Kansas, 2016
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December 30th, 2016
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