schneider black forest cuckoo clocks

10 cool holiday gifts you can buy on Staten Island

Anton Schneider Cuckoo Clock: Originally crafted in a farmhouse in the Black Forest of Schonach, Germany in 1848, these clocks -- available at R &L Clocks in Great Kills for $375 -- have provided timeless enjoyment for people for more than a century. 8....

Festival of Trees auction slated for Friday

More than 200 decorated trees, wreaths, stockings and other entries and their incentives will be auctioned off from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday at the Muskingum County Welcome Center. Bids may be placed in person or by calling 740-450-1990. The auction ...

Luxuries: Designer cuckoo clocks, red clothes, accessories

One-day-movement Anton Schneider Bears German cuckoo clock, $730.80 at blackforestgifts.com. • Carved owls and birds eight-day mechanical German Black Forest cuckoo clock, $474.58 at clockrite.com. • Auckland 1055 wall clock is made of PVC, wood ...

Nyack Sketch Log: Hickory Dickory Dock

Every ornament, toy and clock at Hickory Dickory Dock tells a story. Once you pass under the canopied entrance of 43 South Broadway in Nyack, and navigate the gauntlet of wind chimes, you enter a forest of handcrafted collectibles. Some of the objects ...

Good Question: Why daylight saving time isn't year-round

"There are the grandfather clocks. We have the cuckoo clocks from the Black Forest in Germany. We have the magical motion and musical clocks," Greg Woodrell pointed out from his House of Clocks store in Bonita. Daylight saving time was first put in ...

Vulva 3.0: Berlin Review

Melanie Sanyal recounts the tragic story of Sara Baartman, an African woman who was put on public display in the early 19th century for her supposedly "freakish" outsized genitals, and whose biography inspired Abdellatif Kechiche's 2010 film Black ...

How To Harvest Uranium from the Ocean

The braids are chained to the ocean floor and allowed to float passively in the water, like an artificial kelp forest. After about 60 days, the boat returns and pulls in the adsorbent materials—now sporting a healthy yellow tint from the uranium. The ...

Meet Britain's most obsessive collectors

My brother and I still restore clocks, it's our main form of income. Funnily enough people from the Black Forest in Germany, where the cuckoo clocks we know today were originally made, still send their clocks to us for restoration. Now that we are both in ...