Covered Bridges of NH: Past and Present

New Hampshire was once home to over 300 covered bridges. Today, there are over sixty authentic covered bridges in New Hampshire, forty-six of which are over a century old. These bridges exist solely because of the efforts of a small but powerful community that both recognized their significance and honored their tradition. Join author and photographer Kim Varney Chandler as she shares an overview of covered bridges in the Granite State along with interesting facts she uncovered while researching her 2022 book, Covered Bridges of New Hampshire.

This presentation is in collaboration with the Buntin Rumford Webster DAR

About the Author

Kim Varney Chandler is a researcher, amateur genealogist, photographer, bird watcher, and dog lover. She is a two-time graduate of the University of New Hampshire (‘91, ‘96G), where her love of history began in Professor Charles Clark’s classroom in Horton Hall. She has been researching ever since. Kim has received extensive press coverage for Covered Bridges of New Hampshire, including a feature piece on WMUR-TV’s New Hampshire Chronicle and Chronicle on WCVB Channel 5. Covered Bridges of New Hampshire was honored with a New Hampshire Preservation Alliance Award for education, documentation, and advocacy, and the accompanying podcast placed second in the New Hampshire Press Association Awards. The book received honorable mention from the Foreword Indies and was chosen as book of the week from the New Hampshire State Library. Covered Bridges of New Hampshire received the Independent Publishers of New England award for Informational Nonfiction in 2024.