What makes a covered bridge so interesting?

Question

I was a fan of covered bridges long before the book or movie about "The Bridges of Madison County." Both sets of my grandparents lived in Madison County, Iowa. They took me and the other grandchildren to several of the bridges and we got to walk through them and hear the history of the covered bridges.

Maybe you don't have an interest in covered bridges but what about old barns or homes?

Answer 1

The workmanship on old bridges is usually excellent.

Answer 2

The ones I have gone over in N. Calif. are in very remote interesting lovely areas and are ancient, perhaps that is the reason some go see them, some you can just walk over now.

Answer 3

We have more than our share of covered bridges in Ohio, but I have visited most of the bridges in Pennsylvania, Indiana and New England.  They make great subjects to photograph and they are a reminder of a simpler, kinder time.  I was "Robert Kincaid" before the fictional character snapped his first bridge.

Answer 4

Tobacco barns are what I like to see. I was born and raised in the South and everywhere we went you would see them. My cousins lived on a tobacco farm. everyday except Sunday they work from sunup till sundown when the tobacco was ready. Sundays was a day of rest and their mom fixed a large Sunday dinner, she even baked a cake. Those old barns are disappearing fast. We still have our cotton fields, but not too many tobacco fields anymore.     Poppy

Answer 5

We just spent 4 months touring the East Coast, we hit every Covered Bridge we could find..We did the Covered "Bridges of Addison County" in Vermont all 5 of them, some in Ohio, and any others we could find in the New England States   . Maybe I find them interesting as Calif. weather doesn't call for them.

Answer 6

They are a bridge across the years... to a very different time and a very different world. Thats why they are so interesting.

Answer 7

One of my favorite subjects to paint is old barns and covered bridges, and one bridge painting took a blue ribbon at the state fair a couple years ago. Here in central Indiana we have around 30. Sadly, they are favorite canvases for teenagers with spray paint, and targets for arsonists. We lost the longest bridge in Indiana a few years back for that reason.

There's just something so romantic about them. And I love old barns -- what character they have! We have hundreds in this county alone. I even live in an old farmhouse -- built 1906. Original wood floors, woodwork and transoms - love it! You sure don't see that in today's cookie cutter houses.

Answer 8

Time gone by - the history, the architecture, it's all very interesting.

Answer 9

They're sort of like a 50 year old virgin. There aren't many of them around anymore.

Answer 10

They are unique, quite unusual in this world of ours.  Anything that can withstand time is interesting and fun to look at... to think about how it was used... what the times and people were like at the height of use.  It is getting in touch with real history.

Answer 11

I love that movie "The Bridges of Madison County". That theme song  makes me cry. I think a covered bridge brings beauty to a small town and/or small city. You see many greeting or holiday cards with the red color on the covered bridge with snow around or leaves falling. It's nice to have a quick stopping place to cover yourself from a heaving rain storm or shady place to cool off on a hot summer day. I like old barns too.  

Answer 12

Covered bridges have a mystic quality about them . . . I used to think that when you walked through to the other side, you came out in a different time period . . .They are all over here in Ohio.  When my son was 8 and went through one he said it was like the tunnel on the roller coaster at Kings Island !

Answer 13

Looks like your driving into a barn plus the sound of the planking as you drive over them.

Answer 14

I can't say I've ever seen the movie but I've been over quite a few covered bridges. There are still a number of them here in VT and in NH. It feels like you're going back thru history when you go over 'em.

Answer 15

I love old homes!  I like a house that has a history.

Answer 16

hi Miz D . i have never seen a covered bridge where i live but my interest lies in the very old train trestles . they fascinate me to see them still standing over gulley's and raveens and thinking of the men and labour that was put into them . train stations that are old also have a piece of my heart .

take care .d.

Answer 17

It is sort of like going back in time.

Answer 18

The simplicity of them and the serenity they invoke. They remind us of times when things weren't so hurried and high tech'.

Feel the same about old barns and have often pulled the car over, just to pause and study them for a while.