Empty Playground

On any normal warm mid-May morning, Playland would be full of children; school children on class trips or younger ones with their parents, excited to ride the train and ferris wheel, or at least the hum of activity as the workers ready for their arrival. But the carousel has no horses, the train is absent from view, the concession is shuttered, and the ferris wheel stands still cloaked for the winter. All the laughter is gone. – Lia ter Heide