Looking back on my childhood in Rhode Island, I have so many incredible memories, but summer day trips to Rocky Point are the most nostalgic.

Rhode Island has a special connection to carousels. The Crescent Park carousel is the finest example of Charles Looff's work.

At the time, it was Boyden's amusement park. In 1895 ... his second the showpiece, one in Rocky Point Park, destroyed in 1892, one for Boyden Heights in East Providence, moved or destroyed.