Initially the new Sligh-Lowry Furniture Company — relaunched by Charles Sligh Jr. and Bill Lowry — made “Salem” maple bedroom furniture, desks and wall clocks — like the old Sligh Furniture Company — ...

My grandfather’s clock was too large for the shelf. So it stood ninety years on the floor. — 1876 ballad by Henry Clay Work In this era of atomic chronometry and time measured to the billionth of a ...