Bridge 87

Dad and Jack just returned from their visit down south this weekend. They re-visited parts of some trips that Jason and I did with Mom and Dad two winters ago and also during the time we lived in Arkansas, checking out Oxford, MS and parts of southeast Arkansas around McGee. But this time the two of them were also searching for some places where they spent a summer while their Dad, my grandfather, was working on Bridge 87 near Watson, AR. They never did get to the bridge - the spring rain had left the old road impassable. But later at the hotel in Jonesburo, Dad was looking through the 2007 Arkansas State Parks guide and he found it. I'm happy to report that the bridge will be preserved as part of a new rails to trails project - the new Delta Heritage Trail State Park. Arkansas has some of the best state parks in the nation, and I'm pleased as punch that this bridge will now be part of one of them.