Some people (OK, two anyway) have asked about the windmills in The Near Myths photo. These are the handiwork of Mr. Vollis Simpson, of Lucama, NC, in Wilson County. Mr. Simpson's reputation as a folk artist is considerable, and his whirligigs, as he prefers to call them, have been exhibited at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. You can find out more about Vollis Simpson and his work here: http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/vollis/index/frontvollis.html. Watch a nice short feature on Vollis Simpson's whirligigs from WRAL-TV, Raleigh, NC: http://www.wilsonnc.org/whirligig/videolist.asp