"It Gives People Something to Look at in Our Flat State"

"'We didn’t have any blueprints or anything like that,' Mr. Richardson, a retired postman, said recently while standing in the middle of the span as it swayed under the steady assault of plains winds. 'We just used a postcard and tried to make it look like it should.'"

In The New York Times, A. G. Sulzburger visits a Kansas man who has built on his property a replica of the Golden Gate Bridge.