Fall in Love with a Metal Truss Bridge

My undistinguished career as a columnist began with an article entitled “The Chartiers Street Bridge” that I submitted to the Almanac in November, 1993, lamenting the imminent demise of the bridge carrying Chartiers Street over the railroad in Bridgeville. Marsha Maddy, wife of my nephew Jonathan, was so impressed with the fact that they had actually published it that she encouraged me to write a weekly column and find someone to publish it. Sure enough, the Bridgeville Area News took me up on the offer, and “Water Under the Bridge” was launched. The column had a nice run until March 2020 when Gateway Publications…