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The Numbers
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Covered bridges worldwide are given a number by the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges (NSPCB). For bridges in the United States, these numbers delineate first the state, […]
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The Bridgewrights Berry
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The Berry family, Jacob E. and his two sons Jacob H. and Horace W., constructed several bridges in the Mount Washington Valley between 1850 and 1885; a handful of which […]
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The Docents
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Much of my covered bridge research has been what you might expect it would be. Lots of reading. Lots of scouring town records, rifling through vertical files at historical societies, […]
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The Bridgewrights Paddleford
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Peter Paddleford and his son, Philip Henry, left an indelible impact on covered bridge building in New England, particularly in New Hampshire. Peter H. Paddleford was born in 1785 in […]
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The Podcast
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Hello covered bridge people! Yes, I know I just published a 288 page book about New Hampshire’s covered bridges. But believe me when I tell you that everything I learned […]
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The Gratitude Chapter
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The second chapter in Covered Bridges of New Hampshire, following the table of contents and my rambling preface, is a chapter entitled simply, Gratitude. My publisher and I had several […]
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The Book Arrival
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I saw my actual book today. Not a Word doc. Not a printer’s proof. Not loose pages with edits. Not a PDF. The real book. The truck from the midwest […]
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The Book Launch
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As I write this, Covered Bridges of New Hampshire is being printed. Somewhere in middle America, my words and photographs are being superimposed onto 288 full-color pages and bound together. […]
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The Beginning
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Excerpt from Covered Bridges of New Hampshire, © Kim Varney Chandler, 2022 My love of history began by chance, really, in a college course that I selected to fulfill a […]
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The Book
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It’s official. Covered Bridges of New Hampshire is scheduled to be released on November 15, 2022. It feels a little surreal to say I wrote a book. I have always […]