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General Category => Hackensack Discussion => Topic started by: BLeafe on April 07, 2011, 12:58:10 AM

Title: The Johnson Library's weather vane - what is it?
Post by: BLeafe 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?

Title: Re: The Johnson Library's weather vane - what is it?
Post by: hankmc 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 

Title: Re: The Johnson Library's weather vane - what is it?
Post by: Homer Jones 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.

Title: Re: The Johnson Library's weather vane - what is it?
Post by: Editor 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.