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Covered Bridges of the Northeast the Complete Story in Words and Pictures w DJ
Covered Bridges of the Northeast the Complete Story in Words and Pictures by Richard Sanders Allen
Hard Cover w/dust jacket Has damage (has plastic protective covering)
121 pages
Copyright 1957
CONTENTS
I Their Place In Our Past1
Ii The Bones Of A Bridge6
Iii The Builders: Unsung Pioneers Of Engineering10
Iv Methods And Tools20
V State By State33 Maine: Wood To Spare33 New Hampshire: Granite Base For Wooden Spans40 Vermont: Collectors' Paradise 50 Massachusetts: The Proving Ground64 Connecticut: Birthplace Of Builders 73 Rhode Island: Only Memories 78 New York: Gateway To The West 80 New Jersey: Sunset In The Garden State90
Vi Smoke Under The Eaves: The Railroad Bridges94
Vii Today And Tomorrow103
Appendices: I. Tabulation Of Existing Covered Bridges108 Ii. Distribution By Type 114 Iii. Roster Of Builders 115
Selected Bibliography 116
Glossary117
Index 119
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
WHY DID THEY COVER BRIDGES? Richard Sanders Allen, described in the Saturday Evening Post as "the world's No. 1 authority and ace collector of covered bridges," tells why* in this complete story of their origin, whereabouts and design.
This is warm, rich Americana to stir memories of danger and lovers' meetings, to recall the happy part these landmarks play in our folklore. But the legend of covered bridges is incomplete without praise for the quiet men who laid these spans to move our nation westward a century and more ago. Here for the first time is a full account of these pioneers, of such men as Timothy Palmer, William Howe, Theodore Burr and Ithiel Town, whose genius lives on today in some of the world's great bridges.
Illustrated with over 100 pictures, diagrams and maps - most of them from the author's own incomparable collection of 20,000 covered bridge items - this is a book to be cherished by historians, engineers, railroad fans and all others who love the practical and romantic in the American past.
Richard Sanders Allen was born 40 years ago in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the son of a consulting engineer, and when he was 20 years old had added covered bridges to his loves for back roads, stamps, maps, railroads and American history. Appalled by the general ignorance concerning the value of covered bridges to our past and our future, in 1943 he started Covered Bridge Topics, a magazine designed to circulate information and enthusiasm among the devoted few who were fighting to save these landmarks from extinction. Now Topics has been taken over by the Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges, and Allen is freer to write articles embodying material gathered in what he calls his "detective work" among musty town histories and from backroad tours around the countryside.
He and his wife, Doris, and their two sons, Dick and Bob, live in a big old house in the town of Round Lake, N.Y. (population 950), where he is postmaster. His job has the added advantage of being a great personal convenience: most of the mail is for him.
Why did women wear petticoats? To protect their underpinning. Why were bridges covered? Likewise.
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