'I am the voice of life; I call you: Come and learn,' reads the inscription on one of four bells in the Hayes Hall clock tower BUFFALO, N.Y. — After a hiatus of several years, the beautiful, stately ...

Readers Meg, Wayne, and Rajiv all wrote in to ask about the tune that clock chimes typically play. What’s it called? Where did it come from? How’d it get so popular? Here’s the story. In 1793, a new ...