BRYAN EATON/Staff photo. Local residents who were at the dedication of the original Whittier Bridge on September 3, 1954, left, Penelope Johnson, Frances Bailey Lalley, James Elliot Reid and Pamela Johnson Fenner. Reid was the "Barefoot Boy" who did the ribbon cutting and the ladies, cousins, sang with their friend Chrisjean Whitten Tiberti, who now lives in Florida.  Reid, from South Hampton, N.H. is Poet John Greenleaf Whittier's great-great-great grandnephew, was at the dedication of the new bridge and his grandson, Reid Jackson Langlois, 3, helped cut the ribbon.

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