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Covered Bridge Festival to celebrate 50 years in Winterset

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October 10, 2019

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Winterset’s Covered Bridge Festival will celebrate 50 years this weekend.

The 2019 theme for the two-day event is “Through The Lens,” with a look back at five decades of festival fun dating to 1970.

A ribbon-cutting and rededication ceremony for Cedar Bridge will be held on Saturday at 5 p.m. The bridge, which is among those noted in Robert James Waller’s best-selling 1992 novel “The Bridges of Madison County,” was destroyed by arsonists in 2017. The ceremony will take place at Cedar Bridge Park.

Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Madison County native, will serve as Grand Marshal for the 2 p.m. parade on Sunday.

Some of the other festival events on Saturday and Sunday in Winterset include:

A photography contest featuring the work of local photo photographers. The contest’s winners will have their work displayed all weekend at the American Legion Hall in Winterset.
There will be a free showing of a documentary dedicated to the festival’s history at the Iowa Theater. The film will feature interviews with some of the festival’s early organizers, old photos, and stories from the past.
A memorabilia exhibit will be on display at the Madison County Historical Museum that looks back at the festival’s 50-year history.
A photographic war memorial will honor 115 Iowans in the military who were killed during the War on Terror in a war zone. The memorial will feature military and personal photos of each person and be displayed at the American Legion Hall all weekend.
Winterset’s Apple Tree Players performed “Oklahoma!” during the first Covered Bridge Festival weekend in 1970. The Winterset Stage will be performing a medley of songs from the acclaimed musical.

If You Go

When: Saturday, Oct. 12 and Sunday, Oct.13, 9 a.m-5 p.m.
Where: 73 Jefferson St., Winterset
Price: $2, but children 11 and under are free
For more information, visit MadisonCounty.com

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