A new Carousel is in Riverfront Park. The Foxtrot Carousel. 1998.

Below are a few 'excerpts' found on such. I forget the source but being 'present era' the information can not be that 'rare'.

I've been working for the past three years on a full scale carousel, the "Tennessee Foxtrot Carousel", for Nashville. We're scheduled to have that put into a pavilion in August. It will be downtown in Cumberland River Riverfront Park. It's a 44-foot diameter carousel with 35 individual unique figures that represent historical and living people from Nashville.

Any horses?

There won't be horses that you ride on, but there's a background central decorative column of a steeplechase held every year, called the Iroquois Street Steeplechase. We will also have fourteen sculpted horseheads that will represent famous horses from Middle Tennessee. This car is called the "Tennessee Foxtrot Car".

I've been working with a company in Brooklyn called Fabricon. And Marvin Silvor, the director has been great to work with. Right now they're setting the machine up and its filling the entire factory space. My assistant Tom Burckhardt has been terrific. He's been doing all the carving directly in styrofoam blocks. I did a design and then built an inch to a foot model. We raised the funds, through our own fundraisers in Nashville, privately and corporately.



All that is now water under the Shelby Street Bridge, in whose shadow the $1.75 million Fox Trot Carousel sits. The carousel is a hit both with the art critics and the public, who has been flocking to it for rides ever since it opened on Thanksgiving last year. In this Grooms creation, the artist has hitched his clownish style to a gentler artistic star. That is not to say the colors aren't eye-popping and the figures' features exaggerated. You don't get much more extreme than a temple-headed rabbi, a sawhorse-bodied architect or a green, red and yellow striped-and-dotted chigger.....