Ten years ago, when I was traveling in the Ozark Mountains, I bought a whirligig at a craft shop by the side of the road in Arkansas. It was the figure of a bluebird that paddled like a swimmer in the ...

Whirligigs were invented centuries ago. They are both toys and tools, indicators of wind direction and the weather. Sources disagree on where the first were made; it was probably in China about 400 ...

Swirling pinwheels catch the wind, while whirligigs dance in the breeze and wind chimes play an airy tune. Such is the wonder of the wind in Hershey Garden's "Catching the Wind" exhibit, which opens ...