The Surveyor's Gift
The Surveyor's Gift The Hudson River in 1924 smelled of diesel and ambition. Patrick O'Brien stood on the Jersey bluffs with his theodolite and plotted the coordinates of what would become, forty years later, the largest public harbor on the East Coast. But in 1924, it was just water and mud and the quiet conviction that some things belonged to everyone. He had been surveying the riverine...
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