…a wooden covered bridge spanning the Connecticut River (the Queen of Rivers) between Windsor, Vermont and Cornish, New Hampshire, America’s longest covered bridge; it’s a two-span 460-foot long Town Lattice Truss in bridge parlance and it looks like this…see above...
…a number of times in the course of it’s lengthy history, it was built in 1866, it has come in need of repairs and in one such semi-recent restoration enter my Friend Phil the barn doctor (a covered bridge is basically just a long barn) who told me that a luthier bought up a bunch of the old spruce beams that he – Phil and his crew - had laboriously been removing and the violin maker wanted them because they had weathered and aged and oxidized to perfection for making violins…so off the violin maker went with his old beams to make new violins and Phil to replacing the massive hand-hewn timbers…
…a number of times in the course of it’s lengthy history, it was built in 1866, it has come in need of repairs and in one such semi-recent restoration enter my Friend Phil the barn doctor (a covered bridge is basically just a long barn) who told me that a luthier bought up a bunch of the old spruce beams that he – Phil and his crew - had laboriously been removing and the violin maker wanted them because they had weathered and aged and oxidized to perfection for making violins…so off the violin maker went with his old beams to make new violins and Phil to replacing the massive hand-hewn timbers…
...okay, fast forward eight months, the violin maker returns violin in hand and walking the full length from New Hampshire to Vermont serenades the crew and the bridge with Bach violin suites played on a violin made from the bridge…then walks back playing the violin like it was a fiddle and makin' like a hoedown, you couldn't make it up, it was more real than any off-Broadway musical...now I ask you, was that cool or what Dude?
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any chance that you are Terry Ward who shot his lincoln hunting Quail at Manzinar? hope so. stanleymichaels@hotmail.com
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