New Covered Bridge Book:
America's Covered Bridges:
Practical Crossings - Nostalgic Icons

 

October 10, 2013 - The Covered Bridge community will soon have a new book detailing the covered bridges of America. The book is titled "America's Covered Bridges: Practical Crossings - Nostalgic Icons is written by Terry Miller and Ronald Knapp. The photographer for the book is A. Chester Ong. The book will be availble through Amazon.com on March 25, 2014.

The authors look at over 100 covered bridges across America including bridges from Vermont, New York, Alabama, Indiana and California. Terry Miller and Ronald Knapp tell the stories of these bridges. They look at the stories of how they were built, the technology that was developed and used to build them and the builders themselves.

America's Covered Bridges has been reviewed by David W. Wright, President of the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges, Inc., Joseph D. Conwill, historian and author, editor of Covered Bridge Topics magazine, David A. Simmons, President of the Ohio Historic Bridge Association, Thomas E. Walczak, covered bridge historian and former president of the Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Society of Pennsylvania, Gerald Arbour, Author, Les ponts rouges du Quebec, Montreal, Canada, Arnold Milton Graton, Master Covered Bridge Wright, Ashland, New Hampshire and Morris Tippin, President of the Indiana Covered Bridge Society.

This book can be preordered now through Amazon.com: America's Covered Bridges: Practical Crossings - Historic Icons.