In a barn in a barrel

I just returned from Durgin Bridge in central New Hampshire, a covered bridge named after the man who ran a grist mill nearby and ran the "underground slave railroad" from Meredith to Conway, New Hampshire, according to the state marker there. The bridge "is 110 feet long and spans the Cold River. It was built in 1869 by Jacob Berry with Paddleford truss construction. This is the fourth bridge to be built over the swift and easily flooded Cold River and is high enough to escape a flood crest of ten feet. It was repaired and arches added in 1967." - DeLorme c) 1987 "The New Hampshire Atlas and Gazetteer" Eighth edition. There are some substantial stone foundations in the valley sides not far from Grover Cleveland's sons place on Cleveland Memorial Road near Tamworth, NH, where American poet Robert Frost, who spoke at President JFK's Washington D.C., inauguration said he spent some of his childhood. (Interestingly JFK spent some of his childhood in Riverdale in the Bronx county of NYC, before the stock market crash, his father was interested in investing in the movie business here in NY.) Actor Claude Rains lived nearby Sandwich, NH and once remarked that he had moved there to be "invisible" (he played "The Invisible Man" and many other roles on the stage and in film) and was surprised how true that was, as he was accepted into the community. (See originally "William Claude Rains") This would place that linkage in the foothills of the Federal White Mountains, not far from Sandwich Notch, the last unprotected "notch" in New Hampshire. Back in the 1940's I think (1930's?) a timber railroad ran nearby and on a very hot Fourth of July a spark from the locomotive set the whole Sandwich Range on fire and it was fought for weeks to put out making national headlines. The Sandwich Notch Road runs through the range from Sandwich, NH to the Mad River, near Waterville, in part in the Federal forest. There's a complete set of "flow blue" transfer printed ceramic ware in the Sandwich Historical Society, once a wedding gift, thought better off in the barn in a barrel.