Weather vanes are widely used as decorative pieces too. A safe bet to find one is on the roof of an older farm building. Let’s get started and make our own weather vane!

New homes tend to feature more personal weather vanes, like an elephant on top of a Quincy home named “Elephant House” on Adams Shore. Or a bull on a Norwell stockbroker's home.

I’d been impressed for years by weather vanes I’d seen around the country. So one day I decided to fire up my welder and build a weather vane from the junk I had lying around the ranch.

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, ...

A weather vane will show you the direction the wind is moving. It's a great addition to your DIY weather station. On your cardboard or plate (if using a plate, flip it upside down) write North ...

A weather vane is also called a wind vane. It is a tool for measuring wind direction. It spins on a rod and points in the direction from which the wind comes. The weather vane is one of the oldest ...

The weather vanes range from simple carved birds, fish, livestock and dogs to figures that seem to literally be riding the winds – loping ponies, racing horses, fire trucks, ...

A weather vane that was bought in a salvage yard helped to reunite the families of a Lancaster bomber crew that were all killed on their way home from a raid on Nazi Germany. Helen Theron bought ...

In 1981, Trooper Kimball helped convict a group known as the “yellow station wagon gang” (after the car they traveled in) for stealing weather vanes in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. And in 1987, an ...

A historic weather vane has been removed from the former fire house in Hallowell, this time, with the city's permission. The instrument, which depicts a horse pulling a fire-hose cart with a ...