Troy Parsh was 7 years old when Geauga Lake closed, and he was there on its last day of operation. The memory has stuck with him and is one that has fueled his quest to become a caretaker of artifacts tied to some of our most cherished bygone amusement parks. “We didn’t know it at the time, but I noticed something was wrong,” Parsh recalls of that last visit to Geauga Lake in September 2007. “We rode the Double Loop, and half the people on the train with me were employees.