Among the many rides and midway games that you can enjoy down at the Keystone Centre’s Fall Fair this weekend, there are few as definitive as the carved-horse merry-go-round.

And the Grand Carousel owned by Jim Mills, president of Select Shows, is a classic in the truest sense of the word.

“It’s a 1961 Allan Herschell, three abreast, 30-horse carousel,” Mills told the Sun on Thursday afternoon, while his employees were in the middle of setting up the midway and rides. It operated nearly all of its life down in Texas, and I acquired it about 15 years ago.”

The Allan Herschell Company specialized in the creation of amusement rides, particularly wooden-horse carousels and roller coasters. Started in 1915 just outside Buffalo, N.Y., the company manufactured portable machines for travelling

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