The most common whirligig is the pinwheel. Folk-art collectors like the homemade whirligigs that show a hen pecking, a soldier fighting or a woman waving her arms. Or the ones with two men sawing ...

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They're called whirligigs and Gary Foster says they're just for "pure whimsy." Foster started making them about 30 years ago and now uses his remaining collection to help people learn more about them.