A Bridge, A Woman, A Legend

The Tilly Willy Bridge, Fayetteville, Arkansas

South of Fayetteville, Arkansas, there is a concrete bridge on Wilson Hollow Road, spanning the West Fork of the White River, with the unassuming name “West Fork White River Bridge”; never mind that that’s not what people have called it, nor its predecessor, since before living memory.

Bridges are almost invisible in our daily rush. A means to an end—l…