A timely expose in the October 19th issue of Fifteen Minutes took us one tick closer to solving the mystery of the giant old green clock in Harvard Square outside Bank of America. The timepiece was inexplicably stuck—seemingly permanently—at 12:16.
Now FM returns with a hard-hitting follow-up investigation. The clock, of which neither Bank of America nor Cambridge nor Harvard will claim ownership, now reads 10:15.
What is the significance of the clock’s nine-hour and fifty-nine minute great leap forward to the future? Or rather, its sluggish regression two hours and one minute into the past?
A random sample of Cantabrigians yielded few answers.
Local Dennis Coveny, a self-described “general laborer,” declined to comment due to the sensitivity of the issue.
Rebecca A. Fuentes, community relations manager for the Cambridge Department of Public Works, played the I-have-no-idea-how-this-mystery-clock-suddenly-changed-time card.
“I was not aware of the clock’s time change,” she says. “I don’t know if someone broke the clock open and changed it. I just don’t know.”
When asked for possible motives of a rogue time-changer, Fuentes furtively changed the subject. And so the investigation continues.
Okay, now it’s done.
For now, Harvard Square remains at 10:15 a.m. or p.m.
But will we ever return to real time? Only time will tell. Oh wait, no it won’t.
