BHC Pic of the Week- Tribute to JP: Nr. 6

When the oldest cask is opened,

And the largest lamp is lit,

With weeping and laughter

Still is the story told,

How well Horatius kept the bridge

In the Brave Days of Old

-Lord Macaulay

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And out in the open, where nothing stands

But with cornfields, houses and road signs

On an empty long road they built with their hands

An old rusty bridge, so narrow and so sleak;

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A bridge built by men

With sweat and toil

With their bare hands and tools

For us to greet years later.

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So lonely and so remote

Yet with a lot of stories to remind us

Of our history and our culture

And of who we really are.

-Jason Smith

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A pair of poems that best describe this setting photographed by JP. It’s located in rural Ohio and was photographed in 2011. The bridge is typical of the modern, polygonal Warren truss bridges built by the state between 1950 and 1980, many of which replaced through truss bridges that were too old and frail but were loaded with memories and stories to share to future generations.

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