Q: We have an old Seth Thomas mantle clock in our family that has been passed down through a number of generations. It was given to my mother by her grandmother, my great-grandmother who was born ...

If a ticking clock was once the heartbeat of the American home, the Seth Thomas Clock Company likely put it there. Few clockmakers were as prolific or long-lived. Seth Thomas was the Chevrolet of ...

It was already dark when I came to my desk to write tonight; even the stars and moon have covered themselves with a blanket of clouds on this bleak winter evening. It is a wonderful set of incongruent ...