Covered Bridges in Fiction
Covered bridges are popular in folklore and fiction.
North American covered bridges received much recognition as a result of the success of the novel, The Bridges of Madison County written by Robert James Waller and made into a Hollywood motion picture starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood. The Roseman covered bridge from 1883 in Iowa became famous when it was featured in both the novel and the film. A covered bridge is also prominently featured in the story Never Bet the Devil Your Head, by Edgar Allan Poe and a dilapidated covered bridge serves as a major plot point in the 1988 movie Funny Farm.
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Famous quotes containing the words covered, bridges and/or fiction:
“We had not gone far before I was startled by seeing what I thought was an Indian encampment, covered with a red flag, on the bank, and exclaimed, “Camp!” to my comrades. I was slow to discover that it was a red maple changed by the frost.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When Death to either shall come—
I pray it be first to me.”
—Robert Bridges (1844–1930)
“A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.”
—Thomas M. Disch (b. 1940)