His focus on Rhode Island clockmakers, such as William Claggett, Thomas Claggett, Edward Spalding, James Wady, and David Williams sheds new light on these important early American clockmakers.

Wes Door, the beloved Kennewick watchmaker who plied his trade downtown for decades, has died. Door was born in his parents’ Kennewick home. And, except for a stint in the Navy and a brief sojourn to ...