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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...