The wind vane, or weather vane, is the simplest and oldest of weather instruments. As far back as 100 b.c., the Greeks mounted wind vanes atop statues of their gods. These functioned as ornaments until the sixteenth century. Leonardo da Vinci made...

A weather vane, also called a wind vane, is a movable device attached to an elevated object such as a roof for showing the direction of the wind. Very often these are in the shape of cockerels and are called weather cocks. Arrows are also popular, but a...

Elementary students create unique weather vanes by first tracing their designs on Manila paper and using the drawings as templates on 14-ply chipboard. The shapes are then cut out of the chipboard, which is later painted on both sides. The first known weather...

Prior to the invention of the barometer, reading the weather vane was one method of detecting the approaching weather. "Everybody had one where I come from in Wilton, Conn.," said Kenneth Lynch of Kenneth Lynch and Sons in Connecticut, who with his ancestors...

Hill and Bill cry and pry their way into a squeaker victory in New Hampshire. (Who cares if the blogosphere is crackling with questions about those curious voting machine vs. paper ballot discrepancies!) Well, at least Hillary’s obscene dramatization of human emotion has had a...

Colonial Williamsburg is more than costumed interpreters in tricorn hats making speeches about revolution or craftsmen demonstrating silversmithing and other trades.The restored 18th-century capital of Virginia also features the nation's first folk art museum, now in a new, more prominent and roomier home.The Abby Aldrich...