Do you wonder why I started with a birthday wish for the Labor Day Holiday? Well, it’s a very simple explanation: On September 2, 2019 (first Monday of September) it will be the 125th anniversary of Labor Day being celebrated as a national holiday. The request for such a holiday first came through a municipal ordinance passed in 1885 and 1886. From this there was a movement to secure state legislation. This was first introduced to New York state, but the first state to pa

It seems we are always in “Sleuth Mode” here at the museum, constantly digging through our archives, hoping to solve some of our own “Mysteries at the Museum”. Sometimes we just give up for the time being and move on to something else – until an unexpected clue falls onto the table in front of us! That is exactly what happened one slow Saturday morning. While Don was looking through some materials from 1946, he suddenly spotted a photo that peaked his interest, called it to

I’m guessing that the majority of you who read this column are at least one generation removed from World War II, and many of you are two or three generations removed from that troubling time. That’s why I decided that the story of Westclox during World War II needed to be shared now – 70 years after the war ended. I don’t know why, but the 1940’s was the last decade that we had left to scan for our Tick Talk project. When I began 1942, I was stunned. The amount of informa