Work continued between bad rain storms at Morning Glory Farm over the past two weeks. The setting of the timbers for the post and beam barn, the future home for the retail store, were almost complete when a fir tree was put on the top on Wednesday afternoon.

Jim Athearn of Morning Glory Farm said he has been thinking about the design for the store for 30 years. From a slight distance the structure looks a lot like two other wooden agricultural buildings in West Tisbury.

Mr. Athearn agreed: “It does look a lot like the Grange and the new Ag Hall, but it is also like many barns that I have come across. It has a high central bay with a shed off each side.”

The timbers are white oak and came from freshly felled trees in eastern Connecticut. Mr. Athearn said they were cut this past winter. The work was done by Hardwick Post and Beam, out of Hardwick. The timbers were trucked to the Vineyard site and installed by a small crew of men, with the help of Kim Baptiste of Tashmoo Boatyard and his steady large crane, capable of precise movement.

Mr. Baptiste said he has assisted the Hardwick crew in the building of a number of homes on the Island that are post and beam constructed.

Mr. Athearn said carpentry will resume with good weather. “We hope to be open before Memorial Day,” Mr. Athearn said.