Seat Updates

This row is the start of the newer style chairs. This row starts an entirely different process and will take some time to get all of the jigs and new parts completed before we are able to continue.

Our painter is on vacation, so before we installed this row we had to prep and paint the floor ourselves. When each row comes out, the floor is re-painted.

We have started taking out rows before installing the row before, just to move the process along as much as we can. So far to this point, the 2 of us (Ken and Shannon Shaw) have put in 411 volunteer hours on this project, and counting.

The rows are going faster now as we are streamlining our processes. Row 3 did have more chairs than the previous 2 rows.

Here’s where our story starts. We have 10 rows of older seats in the front, and 7 rows of new(er) rocking chair in the back, a total of 215 seats. We decided to update the seats instead of replace them to keep the historic setting and preserve our history.