The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: South Carolina

  • A Scary Story for Halloween, or Charleston’s Dark History

    Then I looked closer at the photo…

  • The Invasion of the Ghost Forests

    You’ve most likely been haunted by one without even realizing it.

  • White Privilege Run Amok

    An unwavering sense of entitlement was never bred into me.

  • My Blog Through Fresh Eyes

    Your comments mean so much to me.

  • My Career from Above

    My Career from Above

    I decided to check out all my bridges on Google Maps. Ah, what memories.

  • Throw Me a Bone

    I just finished training on the University Drawbridge. That’s two Seattle bridges under my belt. So if you count the three bridges I was qualified on in Jacksonville, Florida and the one in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, that’s 6 bridges I’ve operated, and that includes all three main types of bridge (bascule, lift, and swing).…

  • Drawbridge Style

    It has been my privilege to be one of the few bridgetenders on the planet to have had the opportunity to operate all three of the most common styles of drawbridges. So here is an extremely basic primer.   This is a bascule bridge. These come in the form of a double span, like the…

  • South Carolina Sweetgrass Baskets

    A couple of summers ago I had the distinct pleasure of spending six weeks in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina in order to operate the Ben Sawyer swing bridge. That’s a story for another day, But I will say I loved the area. I spent a lot of time exploring Charleston, and Mt. Pleasant itself is…

  • The Mysterious Melungeons

    There is a group of people in Eastern Tennessee whose ancestry is said to date back in this country to the late 1700’s. At the time there was talk of people who lived in the forests as Indians, but who looked European and spoke a broken form of Elizabethan English. Their descendants are called the…