Ilana Trachtman was thinking of getting married at a theme park. Well, a former one. Glen Echo Park hadn't been an amusement park since 1968, but it had transitioned into a cultural destination for ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — The National Park Service (NPS) invited people to discuss an amendment intended to “ensure Glen Echo Park continues to thrive as a premier center for arts, ...

They were kids. But the time that they spent nearly 65 years ago marching against segregation in the Maryland summer heat with their friends, families and neighbors shaped their lives. Edith Bryant ...

At first glance, the documentary Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round seems like a familiar story of Black-Jewish allyship during protests of the civil rights era. But the narrative becomes more ...

The National Park Service, which owns the carousel, contracted and paid for the repairs. Carousels and Carvings in Ohio completed the repairs. The carousel is known as a "menagerie carousel" due to ...

Alice Lyons painted a lovely picture of how much fun it was to go to Glen Echo amusement park in the 1950s. That would be, if you were white. You could have added that unhappy fact to your caption for ...