Covered bridges have a special appeal that goes beyond their unique appearance and historical interest. The bridges span time as well as rivers and streams, bringing viewers back to a different era, when craftsmanship mattered and daily life proceeded at the pace of a horse's trot, not a car's overdrive. Spanning Time: Vermont's Covered Bridges, a limited edition newly published by The New England Press, showcases all 101 of Vermont's historic covered bridges with color photographs, facts and figures, and written histories.

Yet Spanning Time is more than a book about covered bridges - it is a labor of love. Author Joseph C. Nelson weaves a rich tapestry of the present and past, the practical and romantic, and the technical and artistic as he celebrates the bridges and their state.

More than 100 beautiful color photographs showcase the aesthetic appeal of the bridges and the four-season splendor of Vermont. Entertaining and little-known historical anecdotes about the bridges and the areas around them introduce readers to local lore.

For those who want to see the bridges for themselves, the book is organized into fifteen regional tours. Each tour has a map, and there are precise directions so that travelers can find even the most remote bridge.

Detailed appendices provide information for bridge lovers, including a fact summary for all of the bridges, an introduction to some of the finer points of truss engineering, and a bibliography for those who want to read more. There is even a glossary to help readers understand covered-bridge terminology.

Spanning Time: Vermont's Covered Bridges takes you on a journey of discovery that reaches across the years and stretches to all corners of Vermont.

It also captures a part of our heritage that is slowly disappearing, despite renewed efforts to preserve and protect Vermont's remaining bridges.

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