Black Gnat: No time to waste
July 6th, 2006 by The Lexington Herald-Leader
In the Gilpin household, there are 12 clocks in ready view in the living room. All the chiming — or chirping — at the quarter after, half-hour and quarter-till tells Peggy, who can’t see without her glasses anymore, what time it is when she wakes up in the middle of the night. “I just lay and listen; eventually it will strike a time, and I know,” she says.
