Thousands of visitors filled the streets of Winterset Saturday for the city's annual Covered Bridge Festival as a cool breeze tossed colorful autumn leaves along the downtown square. Each year ...

WINTERSET — Racing around Madison County to find all six covered bridges in an afternoon is a delightful scavenger hunt that I don’t recommend. Leave Cedar Rapids much earlier in the day and ...

Covered Bridges Quilt Guild will host their annual quilt show at the Winterset Elementary School gym at 404 S. 2nd Ave. It will be held on Friday, June 6, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Saturday, ...

An art piece to honor Stout is located in Winterset along the Covered Bridges Scenic Byway. Eat a great meal at Northside Café but save room for a huge cinnamon roll — a “to go” box might ...

WINTERSET — Sarah Nolte wore a sundress. Her sandaled feet sunk in the creek mud. Above her was the blackened skeleton of the Cedar Covered Bridge, burned for the second time early Saturday morning.

Even the two or three Iowans who still don’t know much about the story — or the others who know just enough to dislike it — ...

WINTERSET, Iowa — Sarah Nolte wore a sundress. Her sandaled feet sunk in the creek mud. Above her was the blackened skeleton of the Cedar Covered Bridge, burned for the second time early ...

After reading “The Bridges of Madison County” in the early 1990s, we had the pleasure of meeting its author, Robert James Waller, at a book event.