If a leper wanted to approach a town, he had to do so at night and ring a bell to warn people of his presence.
My parents never once questioned the practicality behind my passion, even when I had to scrape together gas money and regarded dinner at Taco Bell as a big night out.
On his third night, a hubbub breaks out in the square below the bell tower.
They're having a cocktail party on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday night, and then Steinhardt and others will ring the opening bell the next morning.
"He brought astronomy to the attention of a very wide public and was a very good communicator too - that's why Sky at Night ran so long and so successfully, " says astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
Chief executive of the air ambulance service Adrian Bell said he expected between one and four callouts across the four counties per night.
But church leaders said they had to silence it completely because the bell's computer software could not be programmed locally to stop it chiming at night.
Giddings, Lee's county seat, is the kind of place where the courthouse bell tower rings every hour and the most important event in the world is Friday night's high school football game.
He added the volume of the bell could be adjusted and no-one should have to be "kept awake at night".
Shares in energy provider Dynegy fell ahead of the bell after reports emerged that the company was preparing to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as early as Monday night.
Mr Bell said nothing would happen in the immediate future because there was a lot of work to do and night flights would come into operation over the next three to five years.
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