It had been a while since I took my kids to Riverside Park, so when we went last week, I wondered if the metal merry-go-round was still in motion. Sure enough, it was. Most of these old school ...

Nearly 70 years ago, the West Point Pepperell Mill Company rented a merry-go-round for Valley, Alabama, during the holidays. When the mill closed in the early 2000s, the city kept things spinning.