Send us a text In the first episode of the New Year, we get as close to the concept of time as possible: by climbing into Chatham’s 1872 clock tower with village timekeeper Stephen Piazza. Here are some things we learned: It's very steep to the top and hard to do with a microphone and really large headphones.Don't touch the pendulum.Why heat and cold change a pendulum’s paceHow gravity pulls on the gear train differently from 12 to 6And why a tiny turn smaller than a 64th of an inch can mean ...
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Send us a text In the first episode of the New Year, we get as close to the concept of time as possible: by climbing into Chatham’s 1872 clock tower with village timekeeper Stephen Piazza. Here are some things we learned: It's very steep to the top and hard to do with a microphone and really large headphones.Don't touch the pendulum.Why heat and cold change a pendulum’s paceHow gravity pulls on the gear train differently from 12 to 6And why a tiny turn smaller than a 64th of an inch can mean ...
Send us a text While on a holiday break at the Columbia County Fair, I'm sharing this special episode featuring local news stories from the Chatham Courier newspapers of the 1800s, available through the Hudson River Valley Heritage Historical Newspapers Archive. I'll be back to normal programming in the next episode. Watch out for the horse thieves! Support the show "The Jiffy Audio Newsletter Podcast" is an audio documentary zine – the official podcast of The Jiffy – exploring the odd histo...
The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York
Send us a text In the first episode of the New Year, we get as close to the concept of time as possible: by climbing into Chatham’s 1872 clock tower with village timekeeper Stephen Piazza. Here are some things we learned: It's very steep to the top and hard to do with a microphone and really large headphones.Don't touch the pendulum.Why heat and cold change a pendulum’s paceHow gravity pulls on the gear train differently from 12 to 6And why a tiny turn smaller than a 64th of an inch can mean ...