Bridges

This photo was taken in early 2005, when my son Joey was working on his fifth-grade social studies fair project. We wanted to do something different, so we decided to photograph and research the Ohio River bridges in West Virginia. We had a lot of photos at home because of various trips we had taken. I told Joey I would help him and provide some material, but he would have to do almost all of the work himself. I did design the title for his project after he named it. He learned a lot. I was glad he did most of the work himself. From what I saw and heard, a lot of parents that year practically did their children's projects for them.

So it was with interest that I heard Wednesday night about the bridge collapse in Minnesota. I've been helping the news side here work on some material for tomorrow's paper about bridges in this area. Good for The Herald-Dispatch that it has a bridge nerd on its staff.

I don't want to write too much about there here, because I don't want to steal the reporters' thunder. But I hope to write more tomorrow on thoughts about our area's bridges.