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Getting A New Coat Before Winter

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The exterior of the Newtown Meeting House was looking a little bare this week

without its shutters. On Monday morning, a team of three painters from

Brothers Antique and Vintage Restoration began work on the second phase of a

restoration project on the historic building at West Street and Church Hill

Road. The painters removed, cleaned and began repainting the building's

shutters this week. Next week they will power wash the building to remove any

loose paint, before applying a new coat of paint to the building's exterior.

In a few weeks the work will move inside, when the interior walls are to be

done.

--Bee Photos, Hicks

Members of the board of directors for the Newtown Meeting House were anxious

to rehire Brothers Antique and Restoration, a company located in Fairfield,

for the restoration project underway at the meeting house this year. The

directors were so impressed by the care and attention to detail the painters

did a decade ago, they wanted Brothers to come back to Newtown this year.

Every aspect of the job is done by hand, right down to getting old paint out

from between the slats of the building's shutters before new paint is applied.