Wolf Covered Bridge, Spoon River

This covered bridge is over the Spoon River near Knoxville, IL.The original bridge was built in the 1840's and was covered in 1874. Unfortunately, it burnt down in a fire in 1994. Three young teenagers high on a form of LSD, burned paper in the bridge one evening, and voila, the whole bridge went up. Sad thing was, the fire department estimated that it was burning for most of the night, but due to its remote location, no one noticed it until about 8:00 a.m. the next morning. By then the bridge was no longer a bridge… so sad I think, but was just a pile of ashes. The state rebuilt the bridge as close as possible to the original and it was completed in 1999. Pretty cool idea to help preserve what was, the cost: $900,000! But, my personal opinion is it was worth it. A lazy river running underneath, farm fields all over… Kinda nice in the midst of our stock market falling over six hundred points today…. Yup, life is still happening around us!