If you think about rural America, one image that may crop up no matter where you are in the country is that of a covered bridge. Usually built from the very timber that surrounded them, covered ...
Madison County, Iowa, once home to 19 covered bridges, now has six, five of which are on the National Register of Historic Places. The bridges gained fame after Robert James Waller's 1992 novel, "The ...
Editor's note: This story originally appeared in 2018. For 10 days in October during the annual Covered Bridge Festival, the population of Parke County more than triples. Dating back to 1957, ...