Rhode Island's Newport Bridge Turns 50

In the late 1960s, college student Michael Gallogly spent two summers working as an oiler on the Newport Bridge. A half-century later, he recalls in vivid detail the men he encountered, including one Native American ironworker who stood on the barge's steel deck in front of the engine shacks. "A bright red hard hat with ‘Bethlehem Steel' stenciled on the side and the name ‘Lee' printed across the back covered his jet-black hair and leathery brown skin....

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