Matt's New Mexico (Formerly Airstream) Adventure
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Previously neglected this image of the girls visiting FirstEnergy Stadium, home of the Cleveland Browns. The people of Cleveland have some pretty strong feelings about the Ravens. Art Modell moved the Browns to Baltimore in 1996. When they got here we gave Cleveland back their name and their team records. Then they got an expansion team and the Browns were reborn. Still some sour grapes though. Oh well…
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richly deserved fingers too. love the photos of this road trip @Matt !
looks like a Roebling bridge. -
richly deserved fingers too. love the photos of this road trip @Matt !
looks like a Roebling bridge.The Roebling Bridge indeed. Constructed in the late 1800s. We walked about halfway out to the middle from the OH side and drove it back to KY. The longest suspension bridge in the world until it was beat out by the Brooklyn Bridge… also designed by John Roebling.
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This story has fascinated me for decadess, I have to go see the Brooklyn Bridge whenever I am in New York…..
https://www.americanheritage.com/treasure-carpentry-shop
It is said that the first known instances of the bends were recorded building the caissons...
_"Not surprisingly, caisson work wasn't all that popular. Despite the princely (by 1871 standards) wages of $2.25 per day, McCullough estimates that one third of the caisson workers quit every week.
Some weren't so lucky. "Caisson disease," which is today known as "the bends," struck hundreds of the workers, and killed at least five. It also crippled Washington Roebling. In 1870, a fire broke out in one of the caissons, and he fought it for the better part of a day. When he finally left the caisson, he had to be carried home, where he was rubbed with a mixture of whiskey and salt, which doctors thought would improve his circulation. The next day, however, he was back on the job, again fighting the fire, and worsening his condition.
Roebling's brutal case of the bends ended up leaving him bedridden for much of the next thirteen years. He oversaw work on the bridge from his home in Brooklyn, while he developed an ever-increasing dependence on morphine and other painkillers. This is where the romantic epic part comes in: his wife Emily, the plucky young heroine, carried his messages to and from the workers on the bridge, ultimately becoming an engineer and designer in her own right."_
