TIMEKEEPING IN EARLY NEW ENGLAND
With more than 100 digital images, Bob portrays the history of clocks and watches in New England, beginning with the arrival of the Mayflower up to the 1883 adoption of Standard Time. From Eli Terry’s wooden movements to Henry David Thoreau’s banjo clock, the story traces the changes from agrarian sun-time to ubiquitous ticking timepieces governing our lives.
You are welcome to bring your timepieces for an informal evaluation
About Bob Frishman
Bob Frishman is founder and owner of Bell-Time Clocks in Andover, Massachusetts. He has collected, restored, researched, written and lectured about timekeepers since 1980. He has repaired more than 7,000 clocks and watches, and sold more than 1,700. He is a Fellow of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Chairman of the NAWCC Time Symposium Committee, and a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers (London, UK). Along with dozens of articles on many horology topics, he writes a “Horology in Art” feature for each issue of the NAWCC magazine.
He is organizing a “Horology in Art” NAWCC symposium in October, 2017, at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. A roster of eminent art historians and curators already have been recruited to discuss artworks in their areas of expertise, and each will be followed by a horologist who will describe timepieces depicted in the projected artworks.
Thursday March 16, 2017
6:30 pm
Bullard Memorial Farm, Holliston
Tickets $5 - please reserve tickets by emailing Tara Hathaway bmfaprograms@gmail.com, or (508) 429-1638
