Barn-raising ceremony marks new milestone for animal sanctuary honoring Sandy Hook girl

An animal sanctuary in Newtown, Connecticut is a labor of love for a mother whose daughter died in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary began its next chapter with an old-fashioned barn raising.

Jenny Hubbard pulls on a white construction helmet and strolls onto a construction site. She taps in a peg with a mallet. A few minutes later, a crane raises the first beams for what will become the sanctuary’s first permanent structure.

“A barn raising is really the first day where you’re really getting a lot of the timbers and frames in the air,” said Roger Barrett Jr. with Country Carpenters — one of the builders on the project. He said it’s an old New England tradition — one that usually involves pulling in friends and neighbors to pitch in and make the work go faster.

“We won’t be able to get to rafters today, but once you get your lower floors assembled, you can throw rafters on it and you have a beautiful outline of the building almost the first day, first two-three days typically,” he said…

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