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April 18, 2006

Bridge Blog: 'I just want to see it blow up.'

From projo.com's demolition correspondent Kate Bramson:

As the projo.com correspondent dedicated to covering the demolition of the old Jamestown Bridge, I set out this morning to get a sense of who's interested in this bridge explosion.

Is it just native Rhode Islanders, or is it anyone interested in watching a good show?

I haven't really determined the answer to that yet, because the folks I've met are from around here -- Newport, Saunderstown, Aquidneck Island.

Linda Gatewood is here with her two sons and a couple of friends. They live just up the road from the URI Bay Campus in Saunderstown, but Linda grew up in Massachusetts.

They brought a couple of folding chairs, and they're ready for the show.

"You go through life trying to prevent things from blowing up," said this mom with her 5-year-old and 10-year-old sons in tow.

So today, she's excited to see this "controlled explosion" they've been hearing so much about.

The boys are ready, too.

"I just want to see it blow up," 10-year-old Drew told me.

And later, he was really interested about whether he would also show up on projo.com today.

Posted by Jack Perry  at 10:02 AM | Permalink

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