A mason works Sunday on the brick chimney that rises above the roof of MCCC's North Hall building on High Street in Pottstown.
POTTSTOWN PA – With temperatures in the 80s and a bright sun overhead, the weather Sunday (June 7, 2009) was perfect for a bicycle race ( the TD Bank Philadelphia International championships), casual swimming at a local pool (Beulah Land in Sanatoga) or, for the really industrious, pointing the mortar in a brick chimney.
To find the latter, travelers through downtown Pottstown during mid-day needed only to look south and skyward from the corner of High and Manatawny streets. At that angle, they saw a lone mason atop scaffolding on the roof of North Hall at the Pottstown campus of Montgomery County Community College. He was busy replacing the mortar mixture between bricks in the building’s prominent chimney, which was either deteriorating or had fallen out due to age.
Besides the ideal weather conditions, a lack of traffic in and out of the college buildings and parking lots on a Sunday may have made it a perfect time to do the work.
