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 ...

and salmon, the whale, its tin ball of spume. Up the hill toward the meadows, each flickered its household's obsession: the fisherman's cod, the dairyman's Guernsey, the goose perched high on the ...