January 5, 2006:
Unbuilding the Grace Bridge - a
family affair
For Pio, unbuilding the Grace Bridge is a family affair. His mom, Grace,
was born in 1910 - so she would have been about 20 when the Grace Bridge
was built. Pio has 11 brothers and sisters - a large family, just like
the Grace Bridge - large enough to handle the 1930s traffic between Mt.
Pleasant and Charleston. So when the time to unbuild Grace arrived,
Pio volunteered his team to unbuild Grace. His team is over half way now
as seen in this view of the worksite.
And his team - Speedy
Richie Bagen - who with Michael Hebb, Jack Foley and Bob McCabe
are my Professors of Unbuilding
Roy Delpriete - taking over the grapple for Brad.
and picking up sections of concrete roadway
From here, unbuilding is all down hill
Pio is doing the fetching and toting of roadway segments - building Joe
Duffy's sidewalk to I-95 - here backing up hill to move more concrete
sections to the reef transplant staging area
and a smile from Pio