Nashville Museum Seeks Help Restoring Red Grooms’s Tennessee Foxtrot Carousel

In 1995, armed with a grant from a Nashville nonprofit, New York–based artist Red Grooms set out to create a working carousel for the city of his birth. Three years later, the Tennessee Foxtrot Carousel opened to the public on city land at the base of Nashville’s Broadway.Instead of the usual horses, the ride featured mounts modeled after figures from Tennessee’s history, all rendered in the Pop artist’s cartoonish style. The 36 characters included both the famous and the