CONNECTICUT

Prudence Crandall Mus.
Frogs of Willimantic
Windham Textile Museum
Niantic Book Barn
Gillette Castle
Knights of Columbus Mus.
Bristol Clock Museum
Boothe Park
Stew Leonard's
Barnum Museum
Lockwood-Mathews Man.
Easter Island Statue
Holyland USA
Giant Sperm Whale
Mark Twain House
State Capital
Harriet B. Stowe's House
Menczer Mus. of Medicine
Mus.of Amer. Political Life
O. Ellsworth Homestead

Bristol Clock Museum

(Bristol, Connecticut)

Excerpts from Beth:
Tick tock tick tock. . . the Roadchix trip 2004 was speeding along, and what better stop to make than the Clock & Watch Museum. As we waited for our tour to begin (wandering around the gift shop, what else) we were awed over the ornate clocks in the lobby area. . . and the obnoxious ticking sound. How the
employees could function is waaaaaaaay beyond me. Little did we know that the lobby barely scratched the surface of the THOUSANDS of clocks housed in the museum. The tour was led by a guy who was evidently a former prison guard. . . we were practically shackled together to keep us in line, lest we make off with a 1000 pound grandfather clock hidden beneath our T-shirts.

One of the tourists was ONLY interested if finding out if an old clock he had inherited was worth anything and monopolized the conversation with his "get rich quick" questions. At one point, after seeing approximately 8 rooms full of clocks, we passed by the front door. We assumed the tour was finished and was wrapping up in the gift shop, so Roadchick B dodged out to
use the ladies room.

A few minutes later, she emerged to find that a SWAT team
had been assembled to apprehend the AWOL tourist. Evidently, the tour was NOT over, there were still 4 more rooms to see, and my mysterious disappearance had put the entire museum on "lockdown high alert." Little did they know, I had a grandfather clock in my pocket. . .

http://www.clockmuseum.org