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

Oh I just love that old photo. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Cooper" <saarisr@sbcglobal.net> To: <MOBARRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 1:54 PM Subject: [MOBARRY] Featured Photo > > 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