Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 7—Wilson is about two hours away, but it's a trip you really need to make. My daughter and her family visited last week from ...

Here, a figure sweeps their scythe. And there, they gather fruit. In one, a man pulls a mule with his cart, and in another, the pilot of a flying machine spies on the action below. With turbines, ...

In this Thursday, June 21, 2012 file photo, whirligig artist Vollis Simpson sits outside his shop in Lucama, N.C. Simpson, a self-taught artist famed for his whimsical, wind-powered whirligigs, has ...

LUCAMA, N.C. (AP) — 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 ...

LUCAMA, N.C., June 1 (UPI) -- Vollis Simpson, the North Carolina folk artist known far and wide for his whirligigs, has died at age 94, his wife said Jean Simpson said he died at his Lucama farm ...

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. Subscribe to ...