PORT TOWNSEND – Instead of giving a hurricane-devastated town building materials or medical supplies, Bill Dentzel is donating a handmade carousel.
The carousel will go to Waveland, Miss., which is still rebuilding after being hit hard by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Dentzel will have a display of some of the panels, figurines and a scale model of the carousel, along with information about the relocation to Waveland, at the Nov. 3-4 Port Townsend Woodworkers Show at the American Legion Hall, 209 Monroe St., Port Townsend.
What Dentzel chose to donate to the Mississippi town should come as no surprise. Carousel-making is a long-time hobby of his and is in his blood.
He is carrying on a tradition of Dentzel carousel builders dating back five generations.
