It’s been 150 years since the first hotel opened in Ocean City, setting in motion the transformation of a sleepy fishing ...

And on a hot summer afternoon, the wooden animals feel cool to bare legs, just as they have every summer since the carousel was installed in 1902. “All ages ride it,” says Marty Trimper ...

My childhood memories of Ocean City are as bright as a stack of postcards: the thwack of a miniature golf club, sand crabs ...

Often, one will see a grandmother bringing her granddaughter to ride the carousel because that is what she did as a kid, Trimper said. “Children grow up, they bring their children back ...

This Boardwalk merry-go-round at Trimper's Rides & Amusements was acquired a ... But it now runs on electricity, and not steam power. Maintaining a carousel is a labor of love, Ferrari says.

There, her artistry will be put on full display as she repaints one of Trimper’s antique carousel horses — a stark white stallion with a black saddle and red and gold cloth draped over its side.

Daniel Trimper III, who had retired as head of several Ocean City businesses, including the complex of rides at the lower end of the boardwalk that includes a turn-of-the-century carousel ...

Inside the carousel building, stations will be set up to let kids “build” with craft materials, allowing Trimper’s young guests to be architects, contractors, and home designers for the weekend.