Talk:Bily Clocks Museum

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I am going to add that Frank and Joseph Bily were born in the late 19th century in Spillville, Iowa. They went on to become farmers as well as carpenters. They took upon clockmaking as their hobby, carving and creating complex, finely detailed works of art out of wood.

The Bily brothers have been hand-crafting and carving clocks between 1913 to 1957, almost forty five years. However they never sold the any of the clocks, not even when Henry Ford, the automaker in 1928, who had an passion for collecting clocks, offered to buy their their eight foot, five hundred pound American Pioneer History Clock. The Bily brothers turned down the offer and instead kept their clock collection in tact, stored in their barn. Instead, they wanted to keep the collection in tact and stored in their barn. The legend goes to explain that the reason they did this was because the brothers had a mentally and physically impaired older brother. The older brother found joy in hearing the sound of clocks, thus aspiring the brothers to continue their carvings for him. The clocks were also made for their younger sister so she would have a source of income inheritance to sell once the brothers died. Kid1500287 (talk) 14:54, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Start by finding reliable sources for the information. When you add things to the article, show where you found it. Have you been to the museum? The unsourced paragraph you added sounds like some of the things tour guides might say, but we need citations. Jonathunder (talk) 15:14, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Death is no obstacle

The article currently says:
"The Bily brothers were originally going to burn their creations when they died, but they later donated their collection to the city of Spillville."
Aha. This obviously means that first they die, and then they just go on and burn all their stuff. But no, after they had died, they decided on something else and gave their stuff away.
No, I'm not daft, I suppose I can guess what the sentence is really supposed to mean. Here's a suggestion:
"The Bily brothers had originally planned to burn their creations when they would be too old to maintain it, but then (when?) they rather donated the collection to the city of Spillville."
But I'm making a few assumptions here, so I'd rather leave it to someone who knows more about what really happened.
--BjKa (talk) 12:22, 12 December 2019 (UTC)