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Show THEATER OPENING: -- Y'all "POSSUM CITY, USA" come out for a lively musical-comedDaisy MaeLi'l Abner type 7:30 p.m. Friday through Sept 25; runs Fridays, Saturdays, Mondays. Valley Center Playhouse, Lindon. $6regular; $5seniors, children; $25family. Age 6 plus admitted. CONTINUING: "PETER PAN" and "SOUTH Southern Utah's most popular outdoor venue offers a Broadway lineup in a redrock desert atmosphere. 8:30 through p.m. Monday-Saturda- y Sept. 2. Tuacahn Amphitheatre, www. Ivins. PACIFIC" K - ' mn tuacahn.org. "PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 2: THE SEAQUEL" Set sail with I) bumbling pirates on a 7 p.m. through Aug. 26, Desert Star Cabaret Theatre, 4861 S. State St., Murray. No Sundaor Tuesday performances. (801) 266-260www.desertstar.biz. " The Windsor-Cornis- h CLOSING: "FIDDLER .."A Parents Tevye and Golde try to maintain their religion, home and traditions in 1905 Tsarist Russia. 8 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday, SCERA Shell Outdoor Theater, 699 225-278S. State St, Orem. Traveling exhibit highlights bridges www.scera.org. THE MUSICAL" Utah regional premiere. 8 John Curran "URINETOWN: THE p.m. through Saturday, Egyptian Theatre Company, 328 Main St, Park City. 11 (435) 649-937- 1. PRESS are icons of the past, structures that helped a young nation expand its road system. Two hundred years after they began dotting the countryside, the country's covered bridges have one plank in the past and one in the present. Beloved as picturesque throw-backmany remain vital transportation links in rural communities from Vermont to "YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU" Grandfather knows best in this delightful, madcap Pulitzer Prize winning comedy. 7:30 p.m. through Saturday, Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem. Matinees, 3:30 p.m. Saturday. 226-860- 0. 110.50-114.5www. haletheater.com. s, Oregon. Now, the Smithsonian Insti- . Andrew Lloyd Webber's "CATS" musical by Payson Community Theatre. 7:30 p.m. Aug. 25, 26 2. Matinee: 3 and Aug. t. p.m. Sept. 4, Payson High School, 1050 S. Main St., Payson; 17per-so885-224- DANCE OREM COMMUNITY DANCE Dances, featuring a variety of bands and for college-ag- e adults and older, are held every Saturday from 8-- 1 1 p.m. at the Orem Friendship Center, 93 N. 400 East Orem. 15 with optional dance lesson included. 229-711- 0 or 229-711- ASSOCIATED They www.egyptiantheatrecom-pany.or- 229-791- TAIBOTAssociated Press bridges with a traveling ON THE ROOF" COMING SOON: TOBY is celebrating covered bridge spans the Connecticut River in Comisri, N.H. The Smithsonian Institution exhibit that traces the history of an institution that holds a unique place in U.S. communities. ' tution is celebrating them with a traveling exhibit that traces the history of an institution that holds a unique place in the hearts and communities of America. "In the 21st century, we think of covered bridges as these quaint relics of the past," said Katherine Krile, project director for the Smithsonian's traveling exhibit series. "What they were, in their time, were remarkable achievements in civil engineering. They helped push forward the growth of the U.S. for over a century." "Covered Bridges: Spanning the American Landscape" century, their cachet grew. Advertisers used covered bridge icons, paint companies marketed colors like "covered bridge red" and aficionados built replicas on golf courses and elsewhere. Parke County, In&, which bills itself as the covered bridge capital of the world, has about 30 of them and hosts an annual covered bridge festival each summer. "Aesthetically, they pack runs through Oct. 15. After alL a great punch," said Wright. New England is to many "And they're useful structures, synonymous with covered N.H.,inl832. relatively easy to i jpair and unaffected by salt." Invincible, they weren't. bridges. "We tend to take these struc- Prone to arson fires and vulToday, about 750 remain, tures for granted," said nerable to floods, the bridges' with the biggest concentrausefulness faded with the tion in Pennsylvania. Vermont "Many of us drive over them every day. But there's a has about 80, though not all development of more sophistilot of people that come to Vercated techniques and the evoare still in use. Among them: mont and New Hampshire to lution of the automobile in the the Windsor-Cornisbridge, see covered bridges." 20th century. a 460-folong span over the America didn't invent the "A lot of (covered) highway Connecticut River that links covered bridge, it just helped Vermont and New Hampshire, bridges were built for loads of hay, so that when heavier about 12 miles south of the perfect it. Wooden bridges date to the time of Julius Caeand wider loads started comNorwich museum where the sar, who is said to have built exhibit is being staged. ing, they had to rebuild," said a timber pile bridge over the David Wright, president of the Built in 1866, the bridge Rhine River in 55 B.C. National Society for the Presremains in operation, and Covered bridges evolved as ervation of Covered Bridges. continues to draw visitors. a way of preventing bridge "And when you rebuild, you "Walk The warning sign decks from rotting from expo- rebuilt with contemporary Your Horses or Pay Two Dolsure to the elements, the first materials." still adorns the lars Fine" American one being built over As the bridges began disentrance, even though traffic the Schuylkill River in Phila h appearing in the today is automotive. uses historic photographs, schematic drawings and other paraphernalia to bring the structures to life, showcasing not only their importance as river passages but also the appeal they continue to hold as cultural icons. It's fitting that the exhibit's tour which debuted in should stop Pa. here, says Kevin Coburn, spokesman for the Montshire Museum of Science, where it Har-risbur- delphia in 1805, Soon, they began popping up everywhere, with bridge artisans improving on the engineering and aesthetics of the braces, posts and trusses that supported them. By 1870, there were an estimated 10,000. They had their rules: Tolls were common, as were signs on either side warning horse drivers to slow down. "One dollar fine to drive any team faster than a walk on this bridge," read the sign over a covered bridge built in Bath, h mid-20t- |
