My family needed to not just get out of the house the other week, but get out of town for a bit. Like many Go Ask Mom readers, our lives have been pretty stationary in the last many months. As it ...

WILSON, N.C. (AP) – 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 ...

“Have you been out to Acid Park yet?” That’s how I first heard about Vollis Simpson’s whirligigs when I moved to Wilson, N.C., in 1991. So I headed south down 301 to Lucama, hung a right at Klint’s ...