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The Deagan – or “Peace Chimes” as they are known – tolled regularly during the 1930s and '40s. People decades ago would have been very familiar – the fabric of their day and the pattern ...
Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: Many years ago a local history buff told me the Asheville City Hall had a carillon located in the top of ...
SALISBURY — Chimes are not meant to be silent. A set of Deagan Tower Chimes, installed in 1931, will again ring out at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 200 W. Innes St. The restored chimes are ...
The Deagan chimes in the tower of Topeka High School, 800 S.W. 10th, will ring with the sounds of patriotic music when Trojan alumnus Jerry Anderson performs a free concert at 7 p.m. Saturday.
The chimes at St. Luke’s of the Mountains Episcopal Church in La Crescenta should be heard more often, according to church officials. Since 1926, the sounds of the Deagan chimes atop the stone ...
Those distinctive Deagan Chimes you'll be hearing Sunday night don't get their sound automatically. The songs are carefully and lovingly performed by Jerry Anderson, who puts his hat at CoreFirst ...
With the restoration of the J.C. Deagan chime system now complete, those chimes and songs will once again be heard, reminding students of the start of class, or, for students and neighbors alike ...
They were installed by J.C. Deagan Inc., of Chicago, in 1928 when the building was under construction at 500 S. Salina St. The building became known as the Chimes Building soon after its opening ...
Every year about this time, Jerry Anderson dusts off his collection of patriotic music for an outdoor concert on the Deagan chimes at Topeka High School. "We get a lot of people at the concert ...