Lynne Scott Constantine, 2020
digital photograph, 20″ x 24″

Just past the Richard Etheridge Bridge on Route 12 south toward Rodanthe is a small pull-off that nearly always hosts at least one photographer at sunset, capturing the nostalgic melancholy of the abandoned 1930s-era wooden New Inlet Bridge. New Inlet’s history of opening, closing and re-opening highlights the fragility of human-made intent along the always-changing coast—a reality that will only become more insistent as rising sea levels and increasingly frequent major storms reshape the barrier islands up and down the East Coast.