Michael LaFreniere, lead bell ringer at the San Luis Obispo mission, carries on a family and community tradition.

Collectors of bells value them for their age, uniqueness and craftsmanship. Being very old or connected with some historical event certainly increases their importance, while having an unusual shape ...

Nearly two dozen Philadelphia neighborhoods will see fiberglass bells installed as part of the Bells Across PA project. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and ...

The Holy Rosary Church bell tower has been silent lately, Charlaine e-mailed to say, wondering if that's temporary: We live ...

If you hear the word “tintinnabulation,” you are almost certainly going to think of Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, “The Bells,” perhaps only because you are unlikely to remember anyplace else you’ve heard ...

Three new bells arrived for installation at Notre-Dame on November 7. One of the bells had been used for the Summer Olympics in Paris. Chesnot / Getty Images For the first time in more than five years ...

Perhaps no single piece of secular music is more ubiquitous during the Christmas holiday season than "Jingle Bells," the venerable ditty about the joys of dashing through snow-covered fields while ...

Australia's heaviest set of six bells completes its historic first peal — a mathematical order change of 5,040 rings across ...