Tia2d: “On Amazon.com, I found a little Christmas- present doo-dad I wanted to order for my husband. “He has an account that allows free shipping, but if he ordered it, it wouldn’t be a surprise. I ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

As children, many of us sang this song: “My grandfather’s clock was too tall for the shelf, So it stood 90 years on the floor. It was taller by half than the old man himself, But it weighed not a ...

My grandfather’s clock was too large for the shelf. So it stood ninety years on the floor. — 1876 ballad by Henry Clay Work In this era of atomic chronometry and time measured to the billionth of a ...

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 have a cherished memory. And maybe, just maybe, it’s one you hold dearly yourself. Be advised — I’m not talking to the youngbloods here. If you were born later than the 1960s, it’s highly unlikely ...

The term "grandfather clock" evokes an image as familiar to us as baseball and apple pie. But the original term was coined by an American who wrote this clever song about an old English clock. That ...