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,” 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...