![]() ![]() We have no paid staff - we are all volunteers thus every penny of your membership dues or donations goes to preserving and promoting our local history. Our funding comes from membership dues, grants, a trust fund, and donations. VERY informal, VERY fun, and VERY informative. ![]() The RCHS hosts 'Coffee & Conversation' each Saturday morning from 9 AM-noon at the Ransom School House Museum, 717 North Academy Street, Murfreesboro, TN. Perhaps you are researching your family, your property, or perhaps just plain, old fun facts - the RCHS is an exceptional resource. The Rutherford County Historical Society has been preserving and promoting OUR local history since 1971. ![]() When he is not working on clocks, Sylvester is $12,000 with no cost to Rutherford County. The effort involved custom work from other clock experts around theĬountry, whose work was paid for by several anonymous donor at the expense of Repair the clock, which he did for no charge. As things proceeded, Sylvester decided to Was told in (1999) that “there is a piece of clock laying over there at theĬourt House” and “come and get it if you want it”. A new era, the Scientific Revolution, introduced major innovations in timekeeping. He became involved with the Murfreesboro Tower Clock when he (Part 1 of 5) Horologists know Deodatus Threlkeld as one of the best eighteenth century clockmakers of Northeast England. Throughout middle Tennessee and Kentucky. Sylvester has also been involved in repairing Towers clocks Which is the home city of Nissan Auto Factory in Smyrna. In 1983 Sylvester was honored to build six GrandfatherĬlocks for the City of Smyrna, which were shipped to the City of Kanda Japan, During that period, he bought so many clock movements from the Hermle Clock Company in Germany that the Company honored Sylvester and his wife with a free two-week trip to Germany including rental car. Up and calibrating them to run accurately.ĭuring his 37 years at AVCO, he built and repaired clocks in his spare time. Grandfather clocks from their previous location to their new home, setting them He also has experience in the specialty trade of moving He makes what he needs when that is the only source. Sylvester has a broad range of experience in collecting,īuilding and repairing mechanical clocks of all makes, especially antiqueĬontains the equipment to fabricate and machine clock parts. Of Watch and Clock Collectors since (1985). Sylvester Chambers has been a member of the National Association Standing in for Schaublin’s female ancestors is the wide-eyed Josephine Grabli (Clara Gostynski) whose fine motor skills are put to the test installing the “unrest” or balance wheel, which functions as the mechanical heart of the watchwork.Īs the factory’s efficiency experts attempt to fine-tune their “time is money” business philosophy, a number of its employees have been countering all the bureaucratic noise by clandestinely organizing and setting their agenda, taking up collections to support anarchist activity both at home and in other cities around the world including Barcelona, Spain, and Baltimore.Īlthough the film’s painstaking attention to watchmaking detail coupled with a preference for a resolutely stationary camera may not be perceived as a good time by those with more mainstream tastes, there’s a prevailing playfulness to many of the sequences which, like that properly placed unrest wheel, ensures a satisfying balance.Īmong them is the idyllic opening scene, where a group of women holding parasols and wearing summery hats gather for a group photograph while discussing anarchism (“It’s like Communism but without a government.”).ĭuring another, a group of factory workers on their break huddle around a photographer peddling pictures of noted anarchists like they were baseball trading cards, with the premiums to match.Monday, September 16, 2019, Rutherford County Archive Upon his arrival in the valley, Kropotkin (played by Alexei Evstratov), is initially unaware that the struggling local watch factory and others in the vicinity happen to be at the epicenter of the burgeoning international anarchist movement. Informed, in part, by the Swiss filmmaker’s family’s own past as watchmakers and a memoir by Pyotr Kropotkin, an itinerant Russian cartographer who wandered into the country’s northwest valley of Saint-Imier during the 1870s and re-emerged as a card-carrying anarchist, the curio unwinds with a beguiling precision. If you took the terms “watchmaking” and “anarchy” and fed them into a sophisticated AI program along with, say, “ Frederick Wiseman documentaries” and “ Guy Maddin visual style,” the end product might resemble “Unrest,” a meticulous and mischievous unconventional first feature by Cyril Schaublin. ![]()
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