Emily's Covered Bridge - Gold Brook Bridge in Stowe Hollow, Vermont, better known as the haunted bridge or Emily's Bridge . . . we wouldn't have thought to look for it if it hadn't rained for 5 days and we weren't looking for something--anything-- to take our minds off the rain. Even with a map, we had difficulty finding Emily's covered bridge. The street signs were missing (the only streets we saw in all of Stowe that were missing signs, or so we thought) and the turn off to the bridge was significantly unmarked. (Was this Emily at work?)
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The only way we found the bridge was by following Gold Brook up the mountain (granted the
brook after all this rain was more like a river rushing down the mountain!)
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Emily -- Emily, where are you, I called as I walked through the covered bridge, |
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| snapping photos and bravely holding my camera in front of my face. |
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| But Emily must have mistaken my camera . . . |
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| She must have mistaken my camera for a cross, |
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| because I never did see or hear any sign of Emily. |
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| Can you see Emily anywhere in these photos? |
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| Let me know if you see her! |
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| Safe at last! Although I did have to go back through the bridge to get to our car, believe me, I kept the camera in front of my face and kept shooting photos; just wanted to be on the safe side, as it were! Let me know if you'd like to check out the set of photos I took on the return through the bridge for a possible sighting of Emily! |
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As Emily is known to come out at night, I asked my husband if he'd like to return at night, just to see if we could meet up with her. "Oh, no!" he answered. "I'd be too scared!"
By the way, bridges were covered in New England in order to keep them free of snow and ice and to keep the horse-drawn carriages from slipping off into the freezing waters below. In Massachusetts, we call these bridges Kissing Bridges, as the bridges would keep sweethearts in Puritan New England hidden just long enough to steal a kiss without being seen!
For more information on Emily's Bridge, go to
http://www.coveredbridgesite.com/vt/emilys.html
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