YACHATS – It was a delicate procedure for a construction crew – how to access and then lift a rusting, 90-year-old bronze bell Thursday from the roof of the Little Log Church Museum in a driving rain and windstorm without the whole thing crashing down on the street below.
But workers from Top to Bottom Construction of Newport pulled off the operation without a hitch and then proudly posed with the bell once it was safely in the back of a trailer.
While crews have been working inside the church for a week to peel back Sheetrock to expose rotting walls and take off window trim, removing the bell Thursday was its first delicate outside work…