Maine's Covered Bridges
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (595 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00946RFJ0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 247 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Oh what fun" according to CJ. My uncle found this book in a bookstore one day. To my family's surprise, it was a picture of us on a family outing. My Dad is driving and my mom beside himthe horse's name was Dee Dee's Dream and was a former race horse. there were four other horse and riders behind the wagon. The pictu. Great History I bought this book as a Christmas gift for my grandson. It is an excellent review with excellent pictures of old and present covered bridges. Anyone interest in Maine bridges will like this book.
His photographic work is included in various collections, including the National Archives of Canada. Photographer and historian Joseph D. Conwill has been interested in covered bridges since 1966. He is editor of Covered Bridge Topics, the quarterly magazine of the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. He has seen every covered bridge in North America, including nearly two hundred that no longer exist.
Only seven of these bridges remain today, but the photographic record of the others is surprisingly complete. Maine once had more than one hundred covered bridges. Croix-had a covered bridge.. All of Maine's major rivers-the Saco, Androscoggin, Kennebec, Penobscot, and Aroostook-and even smaller rivers-including the Presumpscot, Ossipee, Little Androscoggin, Ellis, Sandy, Piscataquis, Narraguagus, and St. Maine's Covered Bridges offers views of these structures that once graced the state's roads and railroads, many of them in the Oxford Hills and Western Mountains regions
. He has seen every covered bridge in North America, including nearly two hundred that no longer exist. His photographic work is included in various collections, including the National Archives of Canada. Conwill has been interested in covered bridges since 1966. He is editor of Covered Bridge Topics, the quarterly magazine of the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. About the Author Photographer and historian Joseph D