Once upon a time, isn't that how good stories start? There was a church, and the church was in the country and the country was in the county of Boone and the community was called Bellefonte, and was near the city of Harrison, which was in the Ozarks in the State of Arkansas, which was known as the Land of Opportunity and poor grammar.

The church congregation grew and grew and finally outgrew the little church that had hardwood floors and wooden pews. A new modern and much larger chruch was built right up the road. And man with great vision named Dutch Soper bought the little church. Not only did Dutch have vision but he had a passion. A passion for clocks, not the modern battery type, but the antiquers with pendulums, mainsprings, weights and chimes. And the little church had the ideal atmosphere and ambiance to display and store the fast growing clock collection (over a million dollars worth). A friend who just liked clocks would occasionally stop, talk and sometimes buy another clock. Sometimes the conversation would be about a church in Nasuawah, Iowa called the Little Brown Church in the Vale and the hymnal and its reputation as one of the top (church orientated) wedding chapels in the country. And Dutch a man of great vision thought a similar venture would be a good idea. The clock business was getting out of hand and declining health influenced Dutch to help convert the little church back into a church and wedding chapel in late 1982. So today there are still some of the clocks ticking and talking on the walls and in the halls of the Little Bell Wedding Chapel.


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