Looks like one end is tied to posts about 10 ft off the ground -- so does anyone know if that's an optical illusion or did they really have to climb up there to get on the bridge? Wonderful picture! Judy Donna Cooper wrote: > >Good Morning: Our featured photo for the week is one that Linda Stephens >McCormick sent us of the Eagle Rock swinging bridge. This is such a great >photo that I could not pass it up for a featured photo. The detail of this >1908 post card photo is really great. > >I enlarged it on my 22 inch monitor and counted nine people on the bridge >and these folks are supposed to have been from Purdy. I wonder who they were > And there are people sitting on the ground, too. It looks like there is a >man and woman and 4 children and also a woman and 2 children on the ground >and it is hard to tell but I think that there is one person in the water. >Both woman on the ground are wearing sun bonnets. > >Darla Marbut said that many people used to go there to the bridge area for >picnics and that they'd have baptisms there, too. Dane Martin told me that >he remembered the bridge well and that he'd crossed it many times. He said >the thought that it was probably there until the 1960's but he wasn't sure >about that. > >Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful old photo with us, Linda! Photos >like this add so much to our understanding of Barry County and to to our >files here at Barry. > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/oddsnends/bryfams.htm > >Donna Cooper > > >Please tell us about your Barry county ancestors. The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (saarisr@sbcglobal.net) > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >

Isn't that the leaves of a chinquapin tree on the right? I imagine that most of you know, who are Missouri natives, that the chinquapin trees in Southwest MO died out from a tree disease called Chestnut Blight. When I was a kid and growing up in Barry County there were a lot of these trees all around the county, but they say now there aren't many left in the county at all now. Little boys used to bring chinquapins in the pockets to school and the little girls carried them in small bags or put them in their lunch pails. They were as much a part of our culture and school atmosphere as the cell phone is today. Donna -------Original Message------- From: mobarry@rootsweb.com Date: Sunday, November 04, 2007 14:11:11 To: mobarry@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MOBARRY] Featured Photo Looks like one end is tied to posts about 10 ft off the ground -- so does anyone know if that's an optical illusion or did they really have to climb up there to get on the bridge? Wonderful picture! Judy Donna Cooper wrote: > >Good Morning: Our featured photo for the week is one that Linda Stephens >McCormick sent us of the Eagle Rock swinging bridge. This is such a great >photo that I could not pass it up for a featured photo. The detail of this >1908 post card photo is really great. > >I enlarged it on my 22 inch monitor and counted nine people on the bridge >and these folks are supposed to have been from Purdy. I wonder who they were > And there are people sitting on the ground, too. It looks like there is a >man and woman and 4 children and also a woman and 2 children on the ground >and it is hard to tell but I think that there is one person in the water. >Both woman on the ground are wearing sun bonnets. > >Darla Marbut said that many people used to go there to the bridge area for >picnics and that they'd have baptisms there, too. Dane Martin told me that >he remembered the bridge well and that he'd crossed it many times. He said >the thought that it was probably there until the 1960's but he wasn't sure >about that. > >Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful old photo with us, Linda! Photos >like this add so much to our understanding of Barry County and to to our >files here at Barry. > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/oddsnends/bryfams.htm > >Donna Cooper > > >Please tell us about your Barry county ancestors. The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (saarisr@sbcglobal.net) > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > Please tell us about your Barry county ancestors. The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (saarisr@sbcglobal.net) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message .