» Landmarks is a regular feature about historic sites, buildings and monuments that often go unnoticed – signposts for our local history that tell a little bit about us and the region's development. » ...

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 ...

Bob Dylan once said, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” An easy way to tell which way the wind is blowing can be found on top of many buildings around the world. Weather ...

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, ...

Even in today’s age, farmers continue to watch the local TV weatherman, as did my father some 50 years ago. Yet, I recall during harvesting or planting season, my father, upon glancing at the ...