THE COVERED BRIDGES
OF PENNSYLVANIA DUTCHLAND
The Pennsylvania Dutch Country offers many of the charms of yesterday in a living today. It has an attractiveness to visitors and natives alike because it takes our thoughts back to the half-forgotten memories of another day. Here red bank-barns on well-kept farms dot the quiet countryside, and winding streams, spanned by old covered wooden bridges, meander through lush meadows and rolling blue hills. In some sections the horse-and-buggy still holds sway and
old mills complete the picture of Americas rural past.
This booklet includes photographs of nearly half of the existing covered bridges in nine of the counties that make up the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch Country. An index of the bridges portrayed in this booklet can be found on
page forty-two.
Purely Black & White Photography
(except front & back covers which are color)
Some part of life becomes oblivion;
Something with roots deep buried in the heart
Of simple folk is lost, as one by one, These pioneers of other days depart.
Only the country folk, whose careless tread Endears a dusty road, can ever know
The peaceful,' clattering joy of rude planks spread
Above a drowsy creek that gleams below.
Here was a refuge from the sudden showers
That swept like moving music field and wood, And here cool, tunnelled dark when sultry hours Danced with white feet beyond the bridge's hood . . Yet there are soulless men whose hand and brain
Tear down what time will never give again.
ANDERSON M. SCRUGGS
From Glory of Earth, reprinted, by permission of Ogelthorpe University.
COPYRIGHT 1960, MELVIN J. HORST AND ELMER LEWIS SMITH
*Charter Member of the Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Society of Pennsylvania. Revised 1963-3rd Printing
3 APRIL 1968 — Sixth Printing
Item Details: Booklet - Magazine Type - 42 pages
Condition: Used, good condition Size: Standard, magazine Media: Soft cover
Other: PHOTOGRAPHY BY MEL HORST*
TEXT BY ELMER L. SMITH
