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Museum Monday: more clocks of the world

11/08/10
Last week, to mark the end of Daylight Saving Time, I put together a list of great places to watch the clock for a story on msnbc.com: How time flies! Where to see the world’s clocks. The article featured places such the American Clock and Watch Museum in Bristol, Connecticut, which has a ‘clock forest’ […]

Daylight Saving Time: where to watch the clock

11/06/10
(Boston: courtesy Marriott’s Custom House) Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends at 2 a.m. Sunday morning when we “fall back” to standard time by turning our clocks back one hour. As you rush around resetting the clocks on the microwave, the TV and the bedside alarm, imagine yourself watching time fly in one of the clock-worthy […]

Museum Monday: 75 years at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

10/10/10
There are more than 700 aviation and space-related museums in this country. Each Monday we try to profile one of them.  Eventually we’ll visit them all. This week, we’re stopping at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, which has an exhibit of photos, videos and historic memorabilia celebrating its 75th anniversary. According to airport history notes, […]

Really big things you can’t – and shouldn’t – miss!

10/07/10
(Courtesy Linda Clover) The World’s Largest Ball of Twine. (Cawker City, Kansas) The World’s Largest Catsup Bottle. (Collinsville, Illinois) And the World’s Largest Penny. (Woodruff, Wisconsin) Who can resist making a detour to see this stuff? Not me.  And you shouldn’t either. Especially when 14 (possibly 15th by now…) of some of the biggest “can’t […]

Souvenir Sunday at London Heathrow Airport

09/26/10
There’s never enough time to do everything I want to do in London, but on my most recent visit I managed to squeeze in quite a lot in just three days. Activities were wedged in between a meal seasoned with performances by contortionists and flame-embellished dancers at a West End cabaret bar named Circus, Afternoon […]

Love the layover: Where to honor Jimi Hendrix

09/18/10
Today, Saturday, September 18th, 2010 marks the 40th anniversary of the death of rock & roll icon Jimi Hendrix, the Seattle-born songwriter and musician Rolling Stone Magazine and many others have crowned the greatest guitarist in rock history. [My original version of this story is on msnbc.com: Museums honor guitar legend Jimi Hendrix] Jimi Hendrix […]

Museum Monday: Discover the Airport! Exhibit at Syracuse Airport

09/13/10
There are more than 700 aviation and space-related museums in this country. Each Monday we visit one of them.  Eventually we’ll hit them all. This week’s pick: the Discover the Airport! Exhibit at New York’s Syracuse Hancock International Airport. The exhibit is located right there in the main lobby of the airport terminal and includes […]

Museum Monday: aerospace museum finds

09/06/10
With the help of Twitter-buddy Isaac Alexander, I spent a good chunk of this Labor Day weekend putting together a list of aerospace museums to keep track of and, perhaps, to feature on Museum Mondays here at StuckatTheAirport.com. The process took quite a bit longer than it might have because I kept clicking on links […]
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