GRAHAMSVILLE – Join the Time and the Valleys Museum for a virtual program “The Great Covered Bridges of the Mid-Hudson Region” on Sunday, June 7, at 2 p.m. given by Ron Knapp, co-author of American Covered Bridges: Practical Crossings – Nostalgic Icons.
Sullivan County actually claims the first covered timber bridge built in the state. Sullivan and Ulster Counties stand at the forefront of New York State’s covered bridge history, with several of New York’s most significant covered bridges still standing in the Hudson Valley today. Author Ronald Knapp will explore the covered bridges in the Mid-Hudson Region and connect our covered bridges with the national history of nineteenth-century covered bridges.
Virtual attendance is easy. Just email the Museum at info@timeandthevalleysmuseum.org to register, and you will receive a reply email invitation with information on how to log in to zoom.us for the talk. Please call 845 985-7700 or info@timeandthevalleysmuseum.org for more information.
Ron Knapp, the co-author of America’s Covered Bridges: Practical Crossings–Nostalgic Icons, will focus his talk on the covered bridges of the mid-Hudson region with abundant historic and contemporary photographs.
Knapp is a historical-cultural geographer who taught of State University of New York at New Paltz from 1968 to 2001. While most of his research over the past forty years has focused on China, he has long had an interest in local transportation history.
