CTV News Video
|
Watch: See all Videos in the Player
Email
Photos
An Africville church in Halifax receives a bell from intruders leaving the community baffled on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011.
CTVNews.ca Staff
Date: Tue. Sep. 13 2011 10:55 PM ET
A bell is hanging high up in a belfry in Africville, Nova Scotia, baffling community members who say it mysteriously appeared one night at the site of a church that's being rebuilt to commemorate the black community that once flourished there.
"It's no easy feat because there are no stairs inside, so how they actually got up there to attach the bell is a bit of a mystery," Daurene Lewis from the Africville Heritage Trust told CTV News.
Africville, a historically black community along the shores of Halifax Harbour, was deliberately destroyed in the 1960s when residents were relocated and homes levelled to make room for a bridge.
The rebuilding of the community, including a replica of the church destroyed at the time, is finally nearing completion after decades of talks.
Lewis, who heads the group overseeing construction, said it the bell was mysteriously hung on what looks like climbing rope.
"As far as I know, there haven't been any reports of missing bells," she said.
Since the original design for the church didn't include a bell in the belfry, contractors now need to decide whether they want to make the bell permanent.
"But whether it's a ship's bell or what, where it came from, of course, we won't know that until the contractors take it down," Lewis said.
With files from CTV Halifax's Todd Battis
No comments:
Post a Comment