Trophy Installation Returns To Longfellow Bridge

CAMBRIDGE, MA - AUGUST 1: Trophies are pictured underneath the Longfellow Bridge in Cambridge, MA on Aug. 1, 2018. Nearly five years ago several horizontal metal bracings were bolted to a wall beneath the Longfellow Bridge, and on those bracings someone had meticulously placed a collection of mysterious plastic trophies that one might receive as a child playing on a soccer team, or dancing in a recital, or hitting balls in Little League. But as the Massachusetts Department of Transportation did construction work on the span crossing the Charles River in 2014, the trophies - vestiges of the past that people would go out of their way to find and photograph - were suddenly removed. With the bridge finally reopened after the years-long rehabilitation project, the trophies recently made a triumphant return, delighting people who pass under the bridge on their daily commute. Now that the construction is finished, I have been able to add quite a few more, said the artist behind the trophies, a 50-year-old attorney from the area who asked to remain anonymous because he believes it adds to the intrigue of his project. (That, and he doesnt want to get cited for littering, he said.) (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)