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Post by ecwyanks on Apr 10, 2024 18:58:33 GMT
so just call it the Francis Scott King Bridge
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Post by frantic on Apr 10, 2024 19:57:44 GMT
I just assumed the new bridge would have a new name given how Key is viewed in a modern context.
Early in my journalism career, I found myself having to write a feature on Terra Rubra, the plantation where Key was born, as a long restoration of the main house had been recently finished by a rich history buff. The house was filled with Confederate artifacts because that's what the owner liked.
There've been very few interviews I've done where I was as uncomfortable as that one. Not because of the artifacts. I've been around that stuff my whole life as my family had bought deeply into the Lost Cause mythology. It was just the whole persona and smugness and I'm not even sure what about the guy. He was perfectly cordial. Anyway, it's a random tangent but I think about it any time FSK comes up. And for what its worth, the historic main house that exists today was not the home of Key. Something happened to the original house in the early 1800s and the one there now was built in the 1840s, I believe.
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Post by pallister on Apr 10, 2024 21:10:56 GMT
Reverend Ray Lewis Bridge.
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Post by Ridiculously Dull Bobby on Apr 10, 2024 21:12:22 GMT
There’s another Francis Scott Key Bridge in DC, just in case Maryland is mean and renames its new one.
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Post by ecwyanks on Apr 10, 2024 21:51:24 GMT
maybe that one will get taken out by a boat or earthquake and get renamed.
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Post by Ridiculously Dull Bobby on Apr 10, 2024 22:21:08 GMT
It was built 100 years ago and has been “reinforced” a billion times. It’ll probably crumble on its own in a few years.
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Post by YankeeFan on Apr 21, 2024 22:18:34 GMT
I could have used a service like this in Ireland.
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