Last summer, Vermont’s Burlington Free Press reported on a stolen weather vane. It wasn’t just any petty theft. The perpetrator went so far as to build and silently install a replica of the ...

New England like a weather vane, and few people have been making them longer than John Garret Thew of Norfolk. Thew, 81, has been crafting weather vanes since 1972, and in the past 36 years, he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image provided by the American Folk Art Museum shows the Hudsonian Curlew weather vane. The museum's curator, Emelie Gevalt, ...

Long ago, weather vanes were utilitarian objects, used by farmers to forecast weather conditions. Now they are sought for their decorative appeal and as prized collectors’ items. Last fall, a 62-inch ...

When William Penn and two of his business partners commissioned a weather vane to top their grist mill near Philadelphia, it told them which way the wind was blowing. The vane also was a sign for the ...

Vermont officials have recovered an antique weather vane stolen in the last century, solving a 41-year-old cold case. Modeled after the first steam locomotives, the five-foot-long copper piece was ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A weather vane is an instrument used to show the direction the wind is blowing from. It is one of the simplest weather instruments created and it has been used since ancient times. The ...

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

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