In 1995, teacher George Thomson took his P7 class more than 100 miles from their school in Aberdeen to see the wooden cuckoo at Edinburgh's famous floral clock. But much to his horror, when they got ...
Ten years ago it was thought the famous Black Forest cuckoo clocks would disappear - sales plummeted and several old clockmakers went broke. Now, new features and modern designs have enabled a ...
These new HomeGoods Christmas gifts are flying off shelves this week. Here are the 11 must-grab picks.
ST. PETER — Steve Hultengren said he probably has his mom to thank for his interest in clocks, which led to a career spanning more than four decades. It wasn't that she encouraged him as a youngster ...
CHICAGO — Christmas is less than two weeks away – and there’s a last-minute gift idea at the Christkindlmarket in Daley Plaza. Frank Weschler said he has visited the traditional German holiday market ...
If we told you that hundreds of cuckoo clocks hang on the walls of a North Loop warehouse, your ears would be poised. Just not for not for silence. To Jim Fiorentino's way of thinking, even a clock ...
It is one of the most popular souvenirs from Germany: the cuckoo clock. In the Black Forest you can find the largest specimen in the world — as big as a two-story house. This is part five in our ...
SAINT CLAIR — Frank Buffalino loves cuckoo clocks, but he concedes having 50 tiny wooden birds going off at once is a bit much. “We used to have all our clocks set to the same time,” he recalled, “but ...