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Shutter to Think: Artwork turns attention toward Dixon’s Truesdell Bridge disaster

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The Truesdell Bridge collapsed on May 4, 1873, during a baptism ceremony led by the Rev J.H Pratt of the now First Baptist Church in Dixon. The overloaded span buckled, collapsed and sunk, taking with it 46 lives. The metal was old, in the time period anyway, and for many it still marked a sacred spot in that river.

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Shutter to Think: Artwork turns attention toward Dixon’s Truesdell Bridge disaster

The story is a bit like the iron bars Mark Stach fished from depths of the Rock River. Mangled and twisted, it was borne from the water for the first time in a hundred years; but through desire and brute strength, Stach willed it to take shape.I met Mark in 2022 along the banks of the Rock River just below the Galena Avenue Bridge in Dixon. He had been casting a magnet from his kayak and dredging up the past. Mark was in search of pieces of Dixo…

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