If you live in what we rural folks affectionately call the sticks, you've probably come across a rusted-up weathervane atop a barn once or twice. Antique weathervanes represent an often overlooked ...

We've all seen them perching atop tall barns and houses, silently keeping a watch on the weather. Pigs, horses, roosters, fish and all manner of other creatures bravely face the wind in sunshine, snow ...

BARRE - The hammered copper weathervane that perched atop Barre's historic firehouse for several decades could fetch well in excess of $1 million at auction, according to the recent report of a ...

Every day is a find in the revolving inventory of treasures at the Skinner auction company’s warehouse in Marlborough. We wondered how the experts there define folk art.A Newburyport rooster, or ...

BARRE, Vt. (AP) — An antique copper weathervane that was swiped from a Vermont railway station 40 years ago has been found and was returned to the state last week, the Vermont Agency of Transportation ...

Look up to the sky on pinnacles, cupolas, at the top of barns, churches, businesses, and homes. There you will find, turning in the wind, the functional art form known as the weathervane. At one time, ...

The recent floods in Houston and the hurricane in Florida show how important weather, rain and wind are to everyday life now and in the distant past. Weathervanes told the direction of the wind and ...

As a functioning piece of meteorological equipment, a weathervane is definitely limited. However, as a decorative feature for a barn or a cupola or a chimney, many people find weathervanes to be ...

GILBERTSVILLE, N.Y. - Uncas, a large copper weather vane of an Indian, has long been the pride of this village about 45 minutes from Cooperstown. But its sale to a wealthy New Jersey art collector has ...