St. Vincent's Campanile Rises Heavenward

The cathedral's new bell tower is now on the way up! Yesterday the workmen began to raise the steel framework. The completed tower will have a brick facade to match the nave and chapel next to it. For scale, note the workman who is climbing the center column. There are still thirty more feet of skeleton to be added to the top before it reaches its final height. (The gentleman in the foreground is my father, who is making a photo essay of the tower's progress for our cathedral's web site.)