My mother still calls Great Escape “Storytown” even though it hasn’t been called that since 1983. Originally called Storytown USA, The Great Escape opened in 1954 as an amusement park with a Mother Goose and fairytale theme. The park has been through many evolutions and still operates today.
This weekend a Capital Region legend died, on July 9, 2011 Marshal Wild Windy Bill McKay died at the age of 90. For fifty years the hero of Ghost Town at Great Escape, formerly known as Storytown U.S.A., deputized children from all over the world.