Ghostly
The Tender
57:14
Dunmore, 1973. Nora Pike works nights as the tender of a swing bridge over the Marrow River, and no boat has blown for the draw in three years. Then, on a rainy Monday, a steam whistle sounds from the dark: one long, one short. She opens the span, and the river is empty. It happens again the next night, and the next. The old log books say it has happened before, always when the river runs high.…