This is a forwarded message. If anyone is replying, please send directly to jlhatcher@juno.com This message is slightly off topic (not strictly genealogy related), but perhaps someone can help Ms. Hatcher. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan L. Hatcher" <jlhatcher@juno.com> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 8:58 PM Subject: Gudgeonville Bridge Photos~Desperately looking for good photos of Gudgeonville Bridge > > Dear Bill Klauk, > > Thank you for your web site. I know that this e-mail address is only > supposed to be for special info. but I could not find another e-mail > address to use. I was really hoping that you could still help me. I've > been desperately looking for some good, clear photos of Gudgeonville > Bridge. I've been going through every web site on Pennsylvania history > and on covered bridges in every part of the Northeastern US that I can > find over the past month and a half and I still need some help. I am a > realist painter, who specializes in portraits,murals and calligrapher-- > and now I have the unique privilege of doing my first covered bridge > portrait~a 24" x 30" painting of Gudgeonville Bridge for some > acquaintances. They have a certain view of the Gudgeonville Bridge in > Erie County, PA that they want me to capture, with a bit of the bridge's > reflections in the river below. > > Unfortunately, for the first month I was trying to draw and make sense > out of a terrible, xerox copied photo of the Cain Road Bridge in Ohio > that they had given me. We never could meet in person and they kept > insisting that that was the view they wanted. Nothing could convince > them that it was Cain Road Bridge and not Gudgeonville Bridge. Now, I'm > finally back to drawing up the Gudgeonville Bridge--the one that they > really wanted in the first place. Unfortuately, I can hardly see any > details in this photo, either. I have spent countless weeks and hours on > the internet and at the library and in book stores searching for photos > of these 2 bridges, but haven'tt found anything that can specifically > help me in this very challenging project. If you know of any clear, > lengthwise views of the Gudgeonville Bridge it would help me greatly. I > really need to move on to other projects and am very busy with my kids at > home this summere, so I really need to get this covered bridge portrait > done. Any helpful suggestions or photos that you can point me to?. I > especially need to understand the unique formation of the "piers", those > beautiful stone underpinnings which hold up the Gudgeonville Bridge. I > need to see how the bridge and its unerpinnings are attached to the > embankment. The photo I was given only has dark shadows. From other views > of this bridge, which I've found on the internet, the "buttresses" or > "piers" look very special and rounded and quite different from any other > covered briedge that I've seen thius far. The photo I was given makes > them look totally flat and hardly the same. > > I would really appreciate your help with this very important matter. > > Sincerely, Jill Suzanne Hatcher > <jlhatcher@juno.com> >