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Julie Bowers practices her rivet gun technique during a metals workshop in Montezuma on June 30. Bowers' organization, the North Skunk River Greenbelt Association, brought in historic bridge restoration expert Vernon Mesler to instruct Bowers and other friends of the McDowell Bridge so that they would be able to provide much of the necessary labor needed to restore the bridge.

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Filename: bridge06_GV.JPG
Copyright: The Des Moines Register
Image Size: 3754x2451 / 1.6MB; Bridge Bowstring Truss King Iron Bridge Company Historic Julie Bowers McDowell Bridge McIntyre Bridge North Skunk River
Contained in galleries: Beloved Bridge

Julie Bowers practices her rivet gun technique during a metals workshop in Montezuma on June 30. Bowers' organization, the North Skunk River Greenbelt Association, brought in historic bridge restoration expert Vernon Mesler to instruct Bowers and other friends of the McDowell Bridge so that they would be able to provide much of the necessary labor needed to restore the bridge.