Author Topic: The Johnson Library's weather vane - what is it?  (Read 4735 times)

Offline BLeafe

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The Johnson Library's weather vane - what is it?
« on: April 07, 2011, 12:58:10 AM »
It looks like an impaled Midas muffler with a brush stuck in it.

Does anyone know what it is or what it represents?

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Re: The Johnson Library's weather vane - what is it?
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2011, 05:09:13 PM »
My guess would be a rolled up scroll and a quill pen. More appropriate for a library than a muffler although that is what it looks like....perhaps the muffler is a sign of the need for quiet by those who enter here  ;D 

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Re: The Johnson Library's weather vane - what is it?
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2011, 06:09:05 PM »
I'll go with the scroll and pen.
 Does anybody know Maureen Taffe the former library director? She would certainly know.

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Re: The Johnson Library's weather vane - what is it?
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2011, 08:22:07 PM »
I contacted the person in charge of Library Grounds. She's looking into it. 

I googled images of weathervanes from that time period and didn't find anything that even resembled it.  At first, I thought it was an arrow since most weathervanes have arrows.  Looking again, feather pen and scroll is a good interpretation.