In 1949, when Lewis Newton learned that he was going to be a father – for the fourth time – he knew that he was going to need to make a major career change. And while he didn’t reinvent the wheel, his idea (fostered by advice from his parish priest in Brooklyn) to bring the very first Ferris wheel to make the rounds at Catholic bazaars in Brooklyn and Queens provided the jumping off point for Lewis J. Newton & Sons, the oldest family-owned and operated carnival company in Queens, Nassau and Suffolk. Headquartered in East Northport, it is one of an estimated 500 such traveling carnivals in North America, all family-owned. Newton Shows was recently regognized as one of less then 35 carnivals in North America with the Circle Of Excellence Award!