So it went unrung for several years until a separate concrete-block tower was built for it as part of a 1908 church expansion. Westlake United Methodist undertook what turned out to be a yearslong ...

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

In a little room near the top of a tower, people stand in a circle. Each holds a rope wrapped with a few feet of soft carpet as a handle, and when someone shouts, everyone pulls. At first you hear ...