From Stonemasons to Carpenters

What happened

My grandfather spent his career building bridges, overpasses and box culverts up and down the central coast of California. Despite these being concrete structures, his occupation was that of carpenter. The reason he was a carpenter is because they would build large wooden structures, which would then create a form (essentially a mold for the concrete to be poured into). This is something that I keep returning to whe…

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