News Summary

• The Weatherbird made his first appearance in the edition of Feb. 11, 1901, walking through the snow, wearing a coat, scarf and hat, smoking a cigar.
• Dan Martin, the now-retired Post-Dispatch artist who still draws the Weatherbird five days a week, is only the sixth artist to draw the beloved bird.
• A significant chunk of his collection has now made it to the Field House Museum, where the pieces make up an exhibit called “Behind the Feathers: A Century of Weatherbird History”