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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Eugene Tucker began working on clocks almost by accident. Retired from the telephone company, he was refinishing furniture for local residents.
Ten years after Flossie Williamson asked him if he could perhaps get her old clock working again as well as refinishing its case, what began as a hobby has become a passion.
He fixed Mrs. Williamson’s clock, but not too long after she asked him to come back to her house “and do something about that clock.” Unaccustomed to the ticking and the ft chimes, it was keeping her awake at ^ night, Mr. Tucker explained.
The Tuckers’ house perches on the side of Fodderstack Mountain, and its floor-to-ceiling glass panes offer a spectacular view west to the Blue Ridge for the mantel clocks which sit on window shelves in Mr. Tucker’s workshop, their faces 1 turned to the spring morning. *; And in his shop, Mr. Tucker is
See CLOCKSMITH, p. 15
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