The Pink Scarf Project - the Covered Bridge Edition

My beautiful state of Kentucky is home to 13 historic covered bridges- all of them dating back to the turn of the century. In the past few days, I've traveled over 500 miles with your pink scarves in tow. Come along with me on a tour of these historic icons. Feel their spirit~ listen to their stories as they welcome you and your beautiful gifts of heart and hand to the finale of this incredible charitable project~

Built 1855, this bridge is a rare Wheeler truss covered bridge. Original footings and frame intact, 155 feet long. The bridge was never painted. It stands today as the longest single-span covered bridge in the world that is open to public traffic. The bridge is located eight miles South, of South Shore following Rt. 7, spanning Tygart Creek. The bridge was built by brothers, BF and Parmaly Bennett to accommodate customers located on the West side of the Creek to reach their Mill. The Mill ground grain and sawed timber. Some of the timber was used to make basic furniture, tables, chairs, cupboards, etc. The early settlers arrived with few possessions. Prior to building their Mill, the Bennetts operated the Globe furnace, nearby. The stones from the furnace were used as the foundation to support the bridge. It has been reported that the bridge was the oldest, longest, single span covered bridge in the world". It was recently restored at a cost of over one million dollars.

donated by Mary Harrison

donated by Sandra Wejroch

donated by Quinn 
Comptonia 

donated by Silke Powers

Metamorphosis

donated by Louise Barbour

Standing into Danger

The Oldtown Covered Bridge crosses the Little Sandy River in rural Greenup County, Kentucky. The 194-foot Burr Truss was constructed in 1880 near the community of Oldtown for a sum of $4,000.  The bridge  has a center stone support with two unequal spans. The bridge has withstood the floods of 1913 and 1937.  In 1972 and 1973, the bridge was restored by the region's Green Thumb Program and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 

donated by Sandra Stephens

donated by Sherri

Sherri's Jubilee

donated by Cheryl Van de Casteele

donated by ImGirl

ImGirl

donated by Tanna Stanley

donated by Katy Lunsford

Lolly Linens

donated by Carol Penoyer

Keepin' it real~

I'm the luckiest girl in the world to have friends who love me and support me~~ friends who are willing to drive on back roads and WAY up "hollers" to help me make my dreams come true in photographing your beautiful scarf donations. This is my friend Maria-- she's the best helper a girl could ever ask for.  After our 2 days of driving ALL OVER five counties to photograph the scarves - she sent me a little text that said, "thanks for spending the best 2 days of this beautiful autumn with me." My response to that~ "thank you dear Maria for loving me enough to believe that this could really happen. That we could take beautiful photos and travel all over every back road there is to find these places and bring them to life. I will remember this special time together for all of my life.,"

  

we started early on our first day of travels~

the fog was still heavy when we arrived

at the first bridge

and - it was COLD!

Maria's new job -

"Prop Manager"

she puts em up-

and takes em down~

and all I do is "lay around"

Over 150 scarves 

were donated in the final few weeks of this project

by 53 contributors.

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My friend Maria assisted me

on 2 LONG days (and more than a few wrong turns!)

of photographing scarves.

Another dear friend,

 joined me on the last day of the great

"lets see how many times we can get lost today"

adventure.

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These beautiful photos will be

divided into 3 posts

so that I can share pictures of the bridges

along with the scarves.

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(and so you won't hate me for making such a REALLY long post!) 

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Stay tuned -

the adventure continues~

xoxo

Vicki