St. Michael's Online Magazine, the ECHO, Explores Covered Bridges

 

Three St. Michael's College Juniors took on a special project writing about the covered bridges of Vermont for the ECHO, the college's on-line magazine. The magazine serves the campus and the surrounding community.

On Saturday, November 9, Michael O'Brien, Nathan Formalarie, and Zachary Cook "took a road trip acquiring footage of bridges in Tunbridge, Waitsfield, and some other areas around north central VT." They also did their homework, interviewing John Weaver, Vermont Covered Bridge Society vice president, and by e-mail, Joe Nelson, author of Spanning Time, Vermont's Covered Bridges. They recorded their experiences in their own unique way.

Says Michael O'Brien (mobrien@smcvt.edu): "We are proud of our finished product. . . . It was tough because we only got to cover a small portion of the state, and we could have had much more information, but our goal was to focus on the technology and make the site mainly visual. We did the best we could condensing the information. We have, in the end, gained a great appreciation for covered bridges and rural Vermont."

To view the ECHO Magazine article, go to the Link Page on this website.