Ilana Trachtman’s documentary shows the ripple effects of the summer-long protest at Glen Echo Amusement Park.

Michelle Liprando of Harrison City watched as her daughter, Sienna, spun around and around and around on a motorcycle ...

At first glance, the documentary Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round seems like a familiar story ... the integration of the Glen Echo Amusement Park in suburban Maryland. Director Ilana Trachtman ...

From Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Ilana Trachtman comes a powerful new documentary that serves as a reminder of the recentness of the Jim Crow era, the racial power imbalances and fraught social ...

Lake Park Outdoor Theater was built in 1950 adjacent to the Beer Hut, and was a popular spot for family nights, hangouts and ...

Slowly, she began working on a film about the fight to integrate Glen Echo Amusement Park. It took a decade to make, but now "Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round" is playing film festivals and ...

As many as 3,500 wooden carousels were built at the turn of the 20th century, but only 150 have survived, like the one in ...

REXBURG, Idaho (KIFI) — The Annual Summer Kick-Off Event was held at Porter Park Friday. There were vending booths, food trucks and games. A highlight of the event was the Idaho Centennial Carousel ...

Eerie pictures show the park's once-loved rides including merry-go-round, bumper cars and spinning teacups turning into rusty chunks of metal. But it is not the only theme park in the UK to have ...

The new merry-go-round joins Frontier Family Park, a $66 million play place with a lake and pickleball court that opened in Queen Creek on June 8, and the Poozeum, a museum devoted to fossilized ...

Trachtman, who grew up near the national park that was built on Glen Echo’s ruins (little more than the carousel remains), opens “Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round” with tantalizing ...