Grand Bird's Eye View of the Great East River Suspension Bridge Exploria_Print a small acknowledgment of the

a small acknowledgment of the year's faithful ink

Every bracket and sash in the lantern-room geometry seems set down with the patience of someone who knew the sea would test it

gathered at an institutional refuge built by a defeated cause that had learned to call itself memory

the war still hardening into its long shape

Grand Bird's Eye View of the Great East River Suspension Bridge Exploria_Print a small acknowledgment of theGrand Bird's Eye View of the Great East River Suspension Bridge a chromolithograph rendering of Roebling's cabled colossus, surveyed from above as if the engraver himself had been hoisted into the harbor air to witness Manhattan and Brooklyn finally stitched together in iron and stone. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,