Weather vanes, used for centuries to indicate wind direction, now serve primarily as ornamental and symbolic decorations. Weather vane designs, often crafted from copper or gold-gilded steel, range ...

You don't need a vested interest in wind direction to value the good old-fashioned appeal of a weather vane. You don't have to be a farmer. Or a fisherman. You don't even have to live in the country - ...

PEORIA, Ill. -- Not many exhibits are likely to give more pleasure than "Whirligigs and Weathervanes," which opened this spring in the Lakeview Museum's Folk Art Gallery here and continues through ...