The fort has six sides, numbered, amazingly, 1-6. (Our awesome federal government at work.) This is a picture of side 3. A lot of the brick on the face has fallen off, but this is not new. It was like this our last visit in 2009, and according to long-time employees, for much longer than that. The walls are still 8 ft. thick. Nothing really new here.
This side is not open to the public. It's used for employee housing, work shops, supply storage, laundry room - all things critical to the operation of the park. But now, someone, somewhere (not here, for sure) has decided that this side is unsafe. That means everything has to be moved - people, shops, supplies - all of it. This is a major upheaval here. There's not really any unused space, so some people are being reassigned to Key West and at least one will now be resident on Loggerhead Key. The good news is that the park will still be serving the public; they won't notice any difference.
No comments:
Post a Comment