Covered bridge festival offers bus tours, live music (The Penn)
The Penn reported on the inaugural Indiana County Covered Bridge Festival, a Grassroots grant recipient.
From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 27, spend the day at Blue Spruce Park for the first Indiana County Covered Bridge Festival.
Not only does the festival serve as a relaxing way to spend an afternoon, but it fits a college student’s budget. There is no admission fee, and parking is free.
There are four covered bridges in Indiana County: Harmon, Kintersburg, Thomas and Trusal. Each of these bridges was built between the late 1800s and early 1900s, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
According to Ed Patterson, the Director of Indiana Parks & Trails, the idea of a covered bridge festival was proposed by the Indiana County Covered Bridge Committee, which is made of 22 members of the community who “have an interest in preserving the county’s covered bridges.”
Patterson says that the festival is happening thanks to a $5,000 grant from the Pittsburgh 250 Community Connections program and First Commonwealth Bank, which covered most of the expenses.
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