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Article: Clock is still in a time-out at Old South Meeting House ; Restoration to take a few more months
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 31, 2009
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Piece by piece, the clock at the Old South Meeting House has been
coming down.
In February, workers removed the clock's hands. A few weeks
later, they carefully dismantled the dozens of brass, steel, and
wrought-iron parts that make up the clock's internal mechanisms,
carrying most of them out in buckets.
Yesterday, workers used a crane to take down the clock's two
faces - one on the north side of the tower and the other on the
south side - and placed them in the back of a trailer, which
whisked them away.
One passerby asked if the more-than-200-year-old clock was
destined for the dump, a victim of budget cuts.
Not to worry, workers at the Old South Meeting House quickly
responded. The ...