Correction : An earlier version of this story had the incorrect last name for Eric Cheatham.

As a kid, Shana White and her friends spent summers exploring The Children's Museum, enjoying exhibits, telling stories, dancing in the auditorium and interviewing people for a youth-media news organization. And whenever the mood struck, White and her fellow campers would climb to the fourth floor. There, 42 wooden animals stood on the merry-go-round, awaiting another group of small, rambunctious bodies who would hop on a steed, tiger or even a goat for a ride.

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