Touring the Covered Bridges

This weekend is our long planned "Bridges of Madison County" trip! There are nine of us ladies packing our cameras and hiking shoes for a great sightseeing/camping journey. I have prepared, recently, by watching the movie several times. I have been researching on the Internet and was happy to find maps depicting the location of the six existing covered bridges, at one time as many as 19 covered bridges existed in Madison County! All of the current bridges have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Just reading that phrase, gave me goosebumps and anticipation of what we will see this weekend.

The Imes Covered Bridge is the oldest surviving Madison County covered bridge...it was built in 1870, renovated in 1997.

The 107 foot Roseman Covered Bridge was built in 1883 and sits in it's original location. It was renovated in 1992. This is the bridge that was featured in the Robert James Waller novel and also the movie, The Bridges of Madison County.

The Madison County Covered Bridge Festival has been held annually since 1970. Each year, on the second full weekend of October, Madison County residents invite thousands of visitors to celebrate the historic covered bridges. The movie was made in 1995, the book copyrighted in 1992. I thought it was really neat to think that the covered bridge festival was going on long before Francesca Johnson and Robert Kincaid met in the pages of the Robert Waller novel!

Please click on the right,my Grooveshark link, to hear the beautiful "Doe Eyes"
the theme used in Bridges!