“My Grandfather’s Clock,” is, actually, Dan Parker’s family clock. If you sat in any elementary school classroom in the U.S. over the last century or more there’s a good chance you sang or heard the ...

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM)— A local author recently went on a special quest to chronicle his family history. Greg Allison's grandfather, Charles, was an esteemed clock maker, but tracking down his ...

Thanks to smart watches and smartphones, analog clocks aren’t quite as common a sight as they once were. One that still manages to make an impression is the grandfather clock, a vertically imposing ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — In the Centennial State, in the Centennial town, there's a man whose family owns a grandfather clock created more than two centennials ago. "We don't know when it was built exactly ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. My goal this year is to be happy and know peace inside and out. For each of ...

Pendulum clocks, a big advance over the hourglasses and sundials humans once peered at, remained the most precise timekeeping technology until the early 1900s. Based on Galileo’s discovery that ...

Most of us probably assume that grandfather clocks got their name because we most often see them in our grandparents’ houses. Clever though that assumption may be, it’s not the true origin. In reality ...

I would like to know how much my grandfather clock is worth. I inherited it from my father. Through ignorance, I washed the inside with soap and water. The label with the cabinetmaker’s name came off, ...

More than 350 new years have been rung in by a grandfather clock. The first one was made about 1650 in England, and by 1720 the clocks were being made in the American colonies. The clocks have a face, ...

Nowadays, people are more likely to check the time on their phone than to look over at a clock. But even with these ubiquitous (and multitasking) digital timepieces, it's not uncommon for homes to ...