050625 Webinar on Covered Bridges in CT - Earn 1 NYS PDH
West Cornwall Covered Bridge
Please join CSCE at noon on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, for a webinar presentation on Covered Bridges in Connecticut, by Bill Caswell, President of the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. The presentation will explore case studies and provide a brief history of the development of covered bridge truss designs. This topic is especially relevant since two of the earliest and most influential figures in the development of these designs, Theodore Burr and Ithiel Town, were both from Connecticut. Additionally, photos and stories about some of the state's past and present covered bridges will be shared, leading into a discussion on current preservation efforts and practices. This webinar is sponsored by CSCE's History & Heritage Committee and attendees may earn 1 NYS PDH.
Students are welcome to attend too!
Bill Caswell is a native of Narragansett, Rhode Island and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Rhode Island in 1984. He has been employed as a civil engineer at the New Hampshire Department of Transportation since college. When he was new to New Hampshire, his first supervisor at NHDOT
suggested visiting the state’s covered bridges. The craftsmanship of those structures combined with his life-long interest in history set his future on a new path.
He and his wife, Jennifer, have visited most of the standing covered bridges in the United States and Canada. In 2002, he co-founded a research project to document the past and present covered bridges of the United States and Canada. The "Covered Spans of Yesteryear" website – www.lostbridges.org – presently documents over
14,000 covered and uncovered wood truss bridges. He is the author of Connecticut and Rhode Island Covered Bridges (2011) and the most recent edition of the World Guide to Covered Bridges (2021).
He is actively involved in a number of covered bridge organizations. and has served as the newsletter editor, historian, vice president and, since 2014, president of the all-volunteer, non-profit National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges (https://www.coveredbridgesociety.org/).
Webinar will begin at about 12:00 p.m. Please click on the Teams link for the webinar at about 11:45 p.m. and enter your first & last names before joining the webinar.
View the Presentation - No NYS PDH: Free - Please send an email to [email protected] to just view the presentation for free.
CSCE Members who want to earn 1 NYS PDH: $20 Note: To be considered for CSCE Member registration, people need to be current on their CT Section Dues.
Non CSCE Members who want to earn 1 NYS PDH: $30
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