Covered Bridges of Lancaster and Chester County:
We saw a wooden bridge used in the old days of early Pennsylvania before they built concrete and steel-reinforced bridges. We came upon it suddenly at a turn of the road in a woods after we had left Valley Forge two days ago. It made me think of the scene in Key to Lawrence where Mr. Benley drives Dora back to Bryn Mawr College. In his Model-T Ford he crosses a covered bridge, built that way originally to help protect them from bad weather. In Amish country we saw a carriage drawn by horses. They seemed more in tune with the wooden bridge. Our modern automobile didn’t. It reminds us that Pennsylvania can be a state lost in yesteryear.
