James Farm Road "wings" over the Merritt Parkway, Stratford, CT

I've been taking some opportunities lately to gather up various materials about the Merritt Parkway, Southern Connecticut's beautiful and historic highway, first opened in 1940.

The page I've created to document some of these various words & pictures, is called "Merritt Parkway - History In Our Midst" and is located at:

http://members.aol.com/foxcraft/MerrittParkwayProject07.html

This photo is from Wednesday, August 30, 2006, when I visted the James Farm Road "wings" that overlook the Merritt Parkway in Stratford, CT. The wings are part of the bridge that spans the Parkway, and ther are two pairs of them, so that drivers on both the northbound and southbound sides of the Merritt can view them. A close-up examination of one of the pairs of wings (this pair is on the west side of the bridge, which makes them the ones that northbound drivers on the Merritt see) reveals the construction to appear to be a "molded" amalgam of small stone particles, as opposed to having been carved out of a monolithic piece of stone. It's quite beautiful to examine from both close & distant vantage points.