Crane Day Tomorrow, Big Ups!

The crane arrived today.  Tomorrow, it will lift the new belfry, bell and spire onto the clock tower .  Keeley, the crane operators, will be using the same crane and lifting from the back parking lot again, with a lot more weight in the trunk. As the spire has been rigged since last week (we…

Barn Assessments

New England is peppered with antique barns in various states of disrepair, and saving them is central to our mission.  Timber-framed barns are icons of the New England landscape.  They connect us to our agrarian and architectural history and contain centuries of embodied energy.  But many other books, such as Field Guide to New England…