Since their invention in the 1920s, jungle gyms and monkey bars have become both fixtures of playgrounds and symbols of childhood injury that anxious caretakers want removed. Anthropologists mark 100 ...
At just nine years old, Lila Williams has already proven herself to be a daredevil. She loves playing on the monkey bars at recess, and recently got a pair of roller shoes (shoes with one or more ...
A beloved piece of playground equipment is turning 100 years old. The history of the jungle gym and monkey bars is full of weird and and delightful twists, spanning from Japan to suburban Chicago. A ...
A kindergartner frolics on a jungle gym during a festival in Louisville, Kentucky, in September 2017. Natosha Via When Sebastian “Ted” Hinton was a child, his father, a Princeton mathematician, built ...