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 ...
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 ...
Perched atop churches, barns, businesses, houses and seats of government, weather vanes have for hundreds of years taken the form of everything from farm animals to pets, storybook figures to race ...