"My Father's Bridge" Rotation #2 Book by MaryLiz Riddle 2008

"My Father's Bridge"

 Rotation #2 Book 

by 

MaryLiz Riddle

2008

My father built bridges

hung them out to dry.

He wove them out of strings of fireflies

and wire rope unrolled over water

metallic lace draped on towers

sunk through silt into bedrock

deep beneath the river swinging to the sea . . .

     So starts Mary Liz's story about her father's work on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, spanning The Narrows, connecting the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn, New York. It was the longest suspension bridge in the world at its completion in 1964. It is now the eighth longest center span in the world, and still the longest bridge span in the Americas.