The event for the local master craftsman will start at 3 p.m. at Stanley’s boat shop at 102 Clark Point Road and will end at the historical society’s Manset Meeting House on Seawall Road.
S.O.S. going out for steeple repair
SOUTHWEST HARBOR One of the oldest beacons in the Great Harbor is getting a facelift.
Members of the Southwest Harbor Historical Society are sending out an S.O.S. – Save Our Steeple – for help in funding repairs to the tallest part of what is now called the Manset Meeting House on Seawall Road.
Repairs are estimated to cost $135,000 and are partially being funded with a $60,000 grant from the Maine Steeples Fund. Another donor has offered a $20,000 matching grant towards the project.
“That will take us up to $100,000,” said Aimee Williams, president of the historical society, explaining how the donor will match whatever donations are made to the society up to $20,000.