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4. “Sound the alarm!

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 11:15 PM

Mar 2013

Center Bridge is burning! As I stand on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River, I can see people clustered around watching as the bridge that connects Pennsylvania with New Jersey (link to map) is consumed in a raging fire. It is the summer of 1923 and the wooden supports of this old bridge are burning bright red against the midnight sky. Why isn’t anyone doing anything to prevent total destruction? I look around and I can make out the huddled silhouettes of my friends and neighbors. I sketch this historic and horrible event but I don’t have anything but this old envelope. That will have to do!” –Edward Redfield

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The Burning of the Center Bridge. [View all] NNadir Mar 2013 OP

My dear NNadir! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2013 #1

interesting possibility -- Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #2

It seems Redfield lived in Center Bridge PA, and the bridge there burned in 1923 struggle4progress Mar 2013 #6

Thank you, my dear struggle4progress! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2013 #7

thanks for posting, NNadir Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #3

“Sound the alarm! pscot Mar 2013 #4

thanks, pscot ... Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #5