Bright Lights and Whirligigs

Sometime during our wine tasting this afternoon (3-6pm 132 Front St. Greenport hint hint), it will be dark enough outside and we can turn on our little whirligigs in the window.

We are using our term "whirligig" a little loosely but to be somewhat correct they aren't just those things that spin on Antiques Roadshow after spending a century on a barn - they are anything that spins.

Whyrlegyge, chyldys game...is the oldest reference we can find and that's from the middle 15th century. One of the words, gyge, is old English and probably French in origin, and it means to spin.  The gigue or jig, the dance itself, comes from this word and spinning about.  Too much? OK.

Anyway, about halfway through the tasting our little Whyrlegyges will start their work. You can bask in the soft lights and the motion and all this new found knowledge....and if you don't remember Fantasia from your Childhood, you might like the lights in this. Magic. Pure magic.