Showing posts with label Schlicher Covered Bridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Schlicher Covered Bridge. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Winding Through An October Morning ...

“In the entire circle of the year there are no days as delightful as those of a fine October.”

                      ~ Alexander Smith

                         ~ Scottish poet & essayist

                            ~1829-1867

Game Preserve Road winds through the historic Schlicher Covered Bridge, bathed in the morning light, on a gorgeous late October day at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

 

Schlicher’s is an historic wooden covered bridge in North Whitehall Township. It is a 108-foot-long, Burr Truss bridge that crosses the Jordan Creek and was constructed in 1882. It has vertical plank siding and a gable roof. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and was closed for a time for needed renovations.


 

Sunday, January 13, 2019

And A Road Runs Through It ...


“Nothing behind me,
Everything ahead of me,
As is ever so on the road.”
       ~ Jack Kerouac
             ~ 1922-1969
              ~ “On The Road”
                       ~ 1957
Standing near the Lehigh Valley Zoo at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania offers a beautiful late winter vista overlooking the historic Schlicher Covered Bridge in North Whitehall Township.

Game Preserve Road runs through the bridge, painting a picturesque rural landscape on a March afternoon.

Schlicher’s is an historic wooden covered bridge. It is a 108-foot-long, Burr Truss bridge that crosses the Jordan Creek and was constructed in 1882. It has vertical plank siding and a gable roof. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and was closed for a time for needed renovations.

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Summery ...



“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
               ~ Wallace Stevens
                    ~ 1879-1955
     ~ American modernist poet born
               in Reading, Pennsylvania
   ~ Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry for his “Collected Poems” in 1955

The warm air melds with the chirping of birds and crickets, the only sounds in the still beauty of a July evening at Schlicher Covered Bridge in summer, my most favorite of seasons.

Schlicher Covered Bridge is an historic wooden covered bridge located in North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania. It is a 108-foot-long, Burr Truss bridge that crosses the Jordan Creek and was constructed in 1882. It has vertical plank siding and a gable roof. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It underwent needed renovations a few years ago.

It can be accessed from the Covered Bridge Trail at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.