At the east edge of dusk · every fair night
The Meridian
Carousel
Eight painted hearts. One endless horizon.
Drag or use ← → to turn
Bellamy is at the front.
01 / The promise
A small world,
beautifully in motion.
The first bell sounds at civil twilight. Brass gears wake below the boards; forty-eight lamps turn the cream canopy to honey; and the eight Meridian horses begin their patient, impossible gallop.
Built in Leavenworth by the Fallow & Son Amusement Works, the carousel has crossed seven counties without missing a summer. Its mechanism still keeps the peculiar three-quarter waltz rise patented by Ada Fallow in 1907.
See beneath the boards →
Interlude / The night glass
Hold the lamp
to their paint.
Move across the photograph to find its living colour, or raise the house lamps.
Meridian stable plate · dusk exposure 17
02 / The stable ledger
Meet the painted company
Every mount carries a temperament, a route, and a story burnished by a century of hands. Choose a name to bring that horse to the fore.
03 / Below the boards
Waltz in
oak & iron
One twelve-horsepower field motor turns the great crown wheel. Eight offset cranks translate its patient revolution into a lift of exactly thirty-one inches—the distance, old hands insist, between earth and wonder.
Fallow patent
No. 817,204
One night only
Moonrise
Promenade
Saturday · August 17
- First lamps & children’s circuit
- The Roseland Three
- Blue-hour waltz
- Last golden round
04 / This evening
When the lamps
outnumber the stars.
The Roseland Three perform from the south bandstand: cornet, brushed snare, and Clara Vale at the folding reed organ. At the last circuit, the canopy lamps dim one by one until only the lead horse remains.
05 / The ticket window
There is always
room for one more.
Gate opens at 6:40. Rides continue until the lamplighter’s final bell.
Fallow & Son present