If you don’t know what a whirligig is, head for a unique festival this weekend in Wilson, North Carolina. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a whirligig as “a child’s toy having a whirling motion, ...

Wilson is known for the whirligigs, large kinetic sculptures made by Vollis Simpson. They spin all year long, like a windmill, but it's not as effortless as it might seem. Dedicated conservationists ...

Andrew Carson is blowing back to Colorado for the 30th Breckenridge July Art Festival at Main Street Station. Carson is a kinetic wind sculptor who became fascinated as a kid with the high-powered ...

Where others saw trash, Vollis Simpson saw whimsical, wind-powered whirligigs, creations with hundreds of moving parts that turned and twirled. The whirligigs were made from recycled heating and air ...

When a breeze brushes through the field just below Vollis Simpson's machine shop, you can hear the sounds of metal clanging against metal and of Ferris wheel-like contraptions turning. But the ...

A new one-of-a-kind park held it's grand opening Thursday and it features dozens of works from one of North Carolina's most famous folk artists. Hundreds of people were in attendance for the grand ...

For more than 20 years, Peter Gelker has been creating whirligigs. As a child Gelker – now a physician, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst – watched his father build the spinning objects. In his spare ...

(This is the ninth story by this journalist in an occasional series revealing “Hidden America” — worthy travel destinations unknown by most Americans.) Vollis Simpson was a character. He was a North ...

NEENAH, Wis. (WLUK) -- As spearers gear up for the upcoming sturgeon season, part of the equipment often involves decoys, which many believe attract the prehistoric fish when placed down the sturgeon ...