Fort Jefferson on Dry Tortugas lies seventy miles west of Key West, far enough out to feel terminal. Outside the Aleutians and the Philippines, there is no American fortification that asks more of you simply to arrive. The sea insists on it. And on this fragment, buffeted and eroding, sits Fort Jefferson. A brick ring […]
The only covered bridge in the city and county of Philadelphia. Originally built in 1737, rebuilt by the WPA in 1939 and re-restored by the Fairmount Park Commission in 1999-2000.