Jeff Eline

Time Stand Still

Every Friday I climb the stairs, three fights, to a clock tower and I wind the Town Clock. Not a small mantle clock or grandfathers clock, but a big honkin' "Back to the Future" clock. In 1888, my great-great grandfather and the elders of our small Baltimore county town got together and decided to raise money for a large town clock. After donations and an oyster roast fundraiser, enough money was acquired to purchase a clock from the Howard clock company in Boston.