Orchard Belle
A farm-themed horse with a carved wooden straw hat, blinders, vegetables and flowers, honoring local truck farms.
- Category
- Horses
- Carver
- Jim Evans
- Sponsor
- Orchard Homes Country Life Club
A Carousel for Missoula inventory.
Role: Permanent pony.
Entire figure carved by Jim Evans.
Design: John Thompson. Sanding: Scott Olson, Gregg Dalton, Ione Briedlander, Ethel Diettert, Jerry Diettert. Painting: Paula Albers, Vanelle Nurse; priming: Ethel Diettert, Jerry Diettert, Ione Briedlander.
Video reading: seat 4C in footage dated June 29, 2024. View this section. This is a source-era best reading, not a verified current placement.
Historical description and credits: https://carousels.org/psp/Missoula/Orchard%20Belle.html
The NCA gallery includes photographs dated April 2004; current placement is not established by these captions.