Six Hours Against the Sun: the Cape Cod Canal Bridges
Six hours on the road for one windless evening above the Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts, and the three bridges that have crossed it…
Dispatches from the road — personal essays, travel stories, and observations from two decades of exploring America's overlooked corners.
Six hours on the road for one windless evening above the Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts, and the three bridges that have crossed it…
Last year, the McPherson's Ford Bridge in Alleghany County, Virginia, came down for scrap.
Explore the historic National Road through Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, from Zane’s Trace and Ohio’s surviving S bridges to Wheeling’s suspension bridge and…
Back in February, I made a day trip across northwest Indiana to visit a group of notable bridges.
The Cline Avenue Bridge may be new, but its history is tied to one of Indiana’s deadliest construction disasters.
In eastern Ohio, the story of one railroad mirrored the rise and decline of regional heavy industry. The Lake Branch of the Baltimore &…
Last winter, I made a slow, cold-weather circuit through Putnam and Owen counties in west-central Indiana.
A fresh snowfall set the terms for the trip to a former railroad tunnel and three covered bridges in Washington and Greene Counties in…
On a warm winter afternoon, I set out to explore the bridges of Bartholomew County, Indiana.
Planning for a highway around Cincinnati shaped the development of several Ohio River crossings.
An unassuming railroad bridge over Interstate 75 in Lockland has a history that long predates the highway beneath it.
The Blome Road Bridge stands as a rare example of 19th-century bridge engineering and one of the last known works of the Queen City…