“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 ...

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 ...

The term “grandfather clock” seems as familiar to us as baseball and apple pie. But the original term came from an American who wrote the clever song about an English clock. That American songwriter, ...

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 ...

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 ...