The sound of nothing flapping

“Pintail Pair and Cattails’’ (wood), by Robert and Virginia Warfield, in the Jaffrey (N.H.) Historical Society’s show “The Warfield Collection,’’ at the Jaffrey Civic Center through Sept. 17. This exhibition consists of 50 exquisitely carved and painted birds produced between 1970 and 1990.

A cattail. They grow in New England marshes and kids love to whip them around.

Main Street in Jaffrey, in the Monadnock region, in 1907. The region has long had many artists and weekend and vacation homes.