Recent Posts Tagged With 'museum'

• DIRECTING KIDS to WEATHERVANES

  Posted on Thursday August 6th, 2009 at 00:48 in crafts, museum, antiques, weathervanes

  GOSHEN — The Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame will host the children's workshop "Ride Like the Wind" from 10:30 a.m.-noon Saturday. Participants will discover the science behind weather vanes — colorful weather instruments often perched a...

• "OLD JAKE" BACK on DISPLAY

  Posted on Thursday July 9th, 2009 at 00:53 in arts, museum, classic, antiques, weathervanes, old jake

  WINCHESTER — “Old Jake,” the famed downtown weather vane, was featured atop a city Fourth of July display in 1896 and has returned to the limelight this Independence Day. An exhibit highlighting the 6-foot, 50-pound figure opens toda...

• "OLD JAKE" GETS NEW HOME

  Posted on Thursday June 25th, 2009 at 05:20 in museum, classic, weathervanes

  Winchester — “Old Jake” the weather vane that once twirled atop Rouss Fire Hall will have a new home at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley. The weather vane, which failed to sell in January at Sotheby’s New York’s “Important Americana�...