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 ...

WILSON, N.C. – The eccentric vision of a self-taught North Carolina artist famed for his whimsical, wind-powered whirligigs is getting an overhaul that's as much about engineering as it is about art.

RALEIGH, N.C. 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 ...

With the onset of summer more people will be outside and asking questions about what they find there. Here are answers in advance about two bugs I am asked about each year. Q: I often see black beetle ...

One of the best sculpture parks in the country features dozens of whimsical metal structures created by a man who never called himself an artist. The late Vollis Simpson, who grew up and lived in the ...

Mary Anne and Les Reese have spun what began as a way to stay busy during retirement into a bustling business: whirligigs. The Reeses figure they’ve built some 4,000 of the rotating wooden knickknacks ...

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 ...

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 ...