Imagine a hot, humid August afternoon in a simpler time, when weekends were still reserved for families. The old horse-drawn trolleys that once carried Pittsfield, Mass., residents from their homes to ...

Henry Boettlin was just 5 years old when he first heard about Carsonia Park and its classic carousel. The Lower Alsace Township man, now 22, vividly remembers the day. He and his family had just moved ...

From my biweekly Berkshire Eagle column, it’s no secret that I loved growing up in the Berkshires in the 1950s and 60s. I often say that as baby boomers we grew up in the best of times and the best of ...

This column on the art of the carousel is in response to readers who asked how volunteers actually carved the horses on the Berkshire Carousel. Figure carving for carousels became a lost art in 1930.