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Russ Oechsle presents the life and clocks of Timothy Barnes of Connecticut and New York. Oechsle showcases examples of Barnes’s clocks and discusses how to identify his work, and the contributions Barnes made to clockmaking.

G. Russell Oechsle has researched upstate New York clocks
and clockmakers for more than 40 years. He is the coauthor of
An Empire in Time: Clocks and Clock Makers of Upstate New
York (2003, NAWCC); author of Good for a Time (2011, rev.
2021), detailing the largest collection of wooden works clocks
in America; and author of Without Equal: The Clocks of Abner
Jones of Bloomfield, New York (2022, NAWCC). Russ is a Silver
Star Fellow of the NAWCC, past president of Central New York
Chapter 55, past president of Cog Counters Chapter 194 and
Tower and Street Clock Chapter 134, and currently serves as
editor of Chapter 134’s journal, Public Time. He has also served
as a past director of the American Clock and Watch Museum in
Bristol, CT. In 2023, Russ was awarded the NAWCC Kenneth D.
Roberts–Snowden Taylor Horological Research Award for his
original research efforts.

Ward Francillon Time Symposium
October 21-24, 2024
Sturbridge, MA