PA Covered Bridge Festival Coming up Sept 15 & 16

I got my brochure in the mail today about the 37th annual Covered Bridge Festival for Washington and Greene county PA. It's going to be held on Sept 15 and 16th. I am planning on making the trip there this year to visit. The collection has a lot of photos from these area's. Grandpap was close to both counties, and did the maps for the Burr Covered Bridge Society for Washington County. He reported back to the frequently about the condition of the covered bridges.

I have been to several of these covered bridges as a young kid and would like to go back and visit, and to see the bridges in person since I have scanned so many of these photos for the area.

Some of the bridges that are now in Washington county used to be in Greene county, and the collection has photos of them in both locations. This is great for history reasons, but it was a nightmare trying to make sure that I had the photos in the correct county. After awhile I did eventually figure it out. I use http://www.lostbridges.org/ and http://www.tbcbspa.com/ as guides to figure out a lot of these puzzles. I also have a collection of books from Grandpap that tells a lot about the bridges, These are the books that he got from Burr Covered Bridge society.

At the festival there will be entertainment and music as well as vendors. It looks like its going to be a great time to explore the bridges, and see how they look now. At one point all the bridges in the counties were unpainted. I believe they painted them all red sometime in the 1960's or early 1970's.

The collection has photos of Ebenezer covered bridge while it was being moved as well as photos of bridges that are gone.

Here are the links for photos and the festival links.
Festival is http://www.washwow.com/
Greene County Covered bridges Greene County Tourism (there is a link to FMY photos from here)

Fmy Photos - Greene county
Fmy photos- Washington County