Throwing shadows on our eyes

My aunt died after all. I suppose everyone does.

Here, look at Seabreeze Park.

The jackrabbit horse on the carousel.

The Jack Rabbit centennial (which was 2020) set up in the carousel building, featuring the giant drive wheel that used to lift coasters to the top of the first hill.

Sign explaining what all the various posters on the drive wheel were about.

Jack Rabbit's had three different trains over its history and here's pictures of them all. The modern train's been repainted to be primarily black, instead of orange.

bunny_hugger standing before the drive wheel.

Next to all this is a stand with flyers for local attractions and, yes, our eyes were caught by the Jell-O Gallery. But did you also see how teens can get in free to the Corning Museum of Glass? Think how happy they'll be!

The band organ that replaced the one Seabreeze lost in the fire back in the 90s. It's admirably big and loud.

The band organ has this great display showing the current scrolls --- they have a huge collection --- and which song is currently playing; at the moment of this photo it was Lara's Theme from Doctor Zhivago.

The band organ is accompanied by a nice comprehensive essay about the machine and its history. I took a photograph so I could read it at leisure --- and now you can too --- and so I wouldn't have to carry around this sheet all day.

Page two. As you see, we're urged to please take one, so I feel sharing this photograph fits with the intention of the author.

Sign from the old Fairyland zoo attraction the park had in the 50s. ... Oh, this can't be good.

More signs, inclding the mention that besides the beloved Henrietta the Tapir, they used to have a coati, which, oh dear.

Trivia: In 1699 the Archbishop of Canterbury discussed with John Wallis (Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford, and inventor of the &infty; symbol), a plan to drop all leap days for forty years, until the calendar and sun were back in line. Wallis perceived ``the hand of Joab'' in the proposal, and claimed it had come from Papists. The plan was dropped. Source: Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History, EG Richards.

Currently Reading: A Mathematical Tapestry: Demonstration the Beautiful Unity of Mathematics, Peter Hilton, Jean Pedersen, Sylvia Donmoyer. The book really picked up once I got past all the flexagon and paper-folding stuff but boy was there a lot of that which I didn't care about.