Articles and Reports about the Talbot Avenue Bridge
- Talbot Avenue: a Bridge in Black and White (History Sidebar, September 8, 2016)
- A Lifeline for the Talbot Avenue Bridge (History Sidebar, July 16, 2017).
- The Talbot Avenue Bridge (History Sidebar, September 26, 2017).
- The Talbot Avenue Bridge Centennial website (offline 2022). Created and edited between June 2018 and July 2019.
- Jubilee Voices to Headline Talbot Avenue Bridge Centennial Celebration (Source of the Spring blog, September 5, 2018).
- Talbot Avenue Bridge Centennial Celebration (Source of the Spring blog, September 24, 2018).
- Racial Restrictive Covenants Renounced at Celebration (History Sidebar, September 24, 2018).
- “More Than Old Metal and Wood” (Diamond session presented at the 2018 American Folklore Society meeting, Buffalo, New York, October 20, 2018).
- An Old Bridge Speaks About Race and History (National Trust for Historic Preservation, December 26, 2018).
- Oral History Connects a Historic Bridge to People, Race, and History (Bridging blog, International Forum for Public History, January 14, 2019).
- “The Other Side of The Tracks: Contested Space, Commemoration, and Erasure,” Intervention, Antipode Foundation, February 13, 2019.
- Erasure, Eruvs and Historic Preservation at the Talbot Avenue Bridge (Vernacular Architecture News, Winter 2019).
- HAER Documents the Talbot Avenue Bridge (Society for Industrial Archeology Newsletter, Spring 2019).
- A Historic American Engineering Milestone: Digital Photography (Society for Industrial Archeology Newsletter, Spring 2019).
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Metropolitan Branch Bridge 9A (Talbot Avenue Bridge), HAER No. MD-195. Historic American Engineering Record report transmitted to the National Park Service, July 2019.
- “Silver Spring: A Sundown Suburb in the Capital’s Gateway.” Invited presentation, Gwendolyn E. Coffield Community Center, Silver Spring, Maryland April 13, 2019 (video).
- Infrastructure and Social Justice. Society for Industrial Archeology online presentation, June 18, 2020.
Videos Featuring the Talbot Avenue Bridge
- The Bridge, a 2017 documentary by Jay Mallin.
- Historic Lyttonsville Bridge Closed But Not Forgotten, 2017 Montgomery Community Media video by Phyllis Armstrong.
Recommended Reading
- Robbins, Glyn. “The Bridges of Montgomery County.” Housing Matters (blog), July 7, 2017. https://glynrobbins.wordpress.com/2017/07/07/the-bridges-of-montgomery-county/.
- Simons, Sasha-Ann. “Pop-Up Museum In Silver Spring Aims To Bridge The Knowledge Gap Of A Segregated Past.” WAMU (blog), April 20, 2018. https://wamu.org/story/18/04/20/pop-museum-silver-spring-aims-bridge-knowledge-gap-segregated-past/.
- Shaver, Katherine. “A Montgomery bridge that linked black and white neighborhoods during segregation soon will be lost to history,” The Washington Post. September 24, 2016. The article appeared in print the following day,
- Shaver, Katherine. “For Years, a Lifeline. A Century Later, a Link Lost to History.” The Washington Post. September 25, 2016.
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