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Registration required at https://flintmemoriallibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/telling-time-with-bob-frishman/ Earlier this year, Andover resident Bob Frishman, generously donated his services to restore our antique Caleb Wheaton longcase clock, now ticking and striking the hours on the second floor. Join Bob for an illustrated presentation about our clock and his work on it, including details about including material and images about clockmaking in general in colonial and early-Federal New England. Our library is proud to own and operate our antique clock. We hope, after Bob’s talk, that library visitors will appreciate knowing a bit more about this important part of Flint Memorial Library's history! This talk is offered in collaboration with the North Reading Historical & Antiquarian Society.
Registration is required. Registrants are welcome to bring in old windup clocks and watches (no modern battery or plug-in timekeepers, please) they would like more information on for a “Roadshow” like talk following the program.
Bob will also bring copies of his recently published award-winning comprehensive biography, "Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803" to sell and sign. The library owns and circulates a copy of his book - place a hold on it here!
About Bob Frishman:
Bob Frishman, founder of Bell-Time Clocks in 1992, has repaired 8,000 mechanical clocks and has sold 1,800 vintage timepieces.* He writes and lectures about the history, culture, and technology of horology -- the science of timekeeping. He has published 150 related articles and reviews, and he has lectured to more than one hundred public audiences. His comprehensive biography of 18th-century Philadelphia clockmaker Edward Duffield, the first ever written, was published in 2024 by The American Philosophical Society Press.
He is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers (London, UK), a Silver Star Fellow of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors and co-chair of its annual New England Regional Meeting, an active member of the Antiquarian Horological Society (London, UK), a Life Member of the Willard House & Clock Museum, Proprietor No.28 of the Boston Athenaeum, Shareholder No.8 of the Library Company of Philadelphia, and a member of the American Antiquarian Society, the Grolier Club, and the Ross Society of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
*Bob is retired from clock repair and is accepting no further restoration business.
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147 Park St, North Reading, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01864
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