Maine-history Quote by Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

A pier is a disappointed bridge.

— Julian Barnes

And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a…

— Gregory Harrison

Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing…

— Ray LaHood

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

— Max Beckmann

“It’s a little known fact, but Hoboken, the Mile Square City, was originally an island in the Hudson River. Of course, its eastern boundary…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“The Hoboken waterfront was still familiar to me from earlier years when I walked along River Street on my way to catch the trolley…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“Machigonne” was the Abenaki Indian name for Portland. Christopher Levett, an English naval captain, landed the first settlement in Casco Bay on the 6,000…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“For history is a pontoon bridge. Every man walks and works at its building end, and has come as far as he has over…

— Wallace Stegner

After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition…

— Ernest Shackleton

“Approaching the Williamsburg Bridge - not really certain of how he had managed to find himself there - he experienced an extraordinary moment of…

— Michael Chabon

“When the North Atlantic Squadron steamed into New York harbor on September 29, 1899—its progress upriver marked by a Journal balloon that released showers…

— Mike Wallace

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.

— Thornton Wilder