Roebling Suspension Bridge

Wednesday
Roger took the day off today so he was able to join Bill and I exploring a few of the sights of Greater Cincinnati. We were focusing on places we knew we hadn't shown Bill last time. So we started by the riverfront on the Ohio side, taking a gentle stroll through the International Friendship Park and some of Sawyer Point. By this time it was approaching lunchtime, so we headed across the river to Newport on the Levee and had lunch outside at Claddagh's Irish Pub overlooking the river. Then we continued to Covington, still on the Kentucky side, and saw the Murals painted on the flood wall by the Roebling Suspension Bridge. These are a wonderful series of fifteen or sixteen huge murals, depicting the history of Covington, painted by Robert Dafford. I must blip them one day, but the light wasn't in the right position today.  When the 1,057-foot-long  Suspension Bridge opened to traffic on December 1, 1866, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world. The designer and builder of the bridge, German-born John A. Roebling, (depicted in the statue in the foreground), used the Cincinnati bridge as his prototype when he later built the longer and more famous Brooklyn Bridge, which opened in 1883 in New York City. Finally we went to the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, also in Covington. At this point it was mid to late afternoon, so we decided to head home and hopefully beat the rush hour traffic. This being the last evening the kids were going to be home, Bill had kindly offered to take us all out to eat, so we went to the Grand Finale in Glendale. Laura had packed her car before we went out to eat, and headed back to Oxford after dinner. She is in her final year, studying Early Childhood Education, and this semester she is student teaching, so the next two days she is going to be helping the class teacher set up the classroom, ready for the kids starting next Wednesday.

One year ago: Cadgwith in evening light