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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 has announced.

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 ...

Al Ferris Jr. grabs a large pair of metal-cutting shears from a corner of his New Milford workshop. “This is a tool I use all the time,” he says. “Tag sale, five bucks. There were two. The other one ...

The most famous American weather vane is the Grasshopper that topped Faneuil Hall in Boston in 1742. Early weather vanes of the 1800s often had a cow, horse or eagle. But as more manufacturers started ...