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 ...

Q: The enclosed pictures are of a Seth Thomas wind-up clock that I acquired at an auction in Sullivan County, N.Y., back in the 1970s. The glass in the door that opens to the clock face is missing.

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 ...