The Sonestown Covered Bridge is a Burr arch truss covered bridge over Muncy Creek in Davidson Township, Sullivan County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Built c. 1850, the bridge is 110 feet (34 m) long, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1980. The bridge is named for the nearby unincorporated village of Sonestown; it was built to provide access to a gristmill, which operated until the early 20th century. The bridge construction is cruder than the other two surviving covered bridges in Sullivan County, with each Burr arch formed from six straight beams set at angles instead of a smooth curve. Despite being repaired or restored several times from 1969, as of 2016 the bridge was deemed "basically intolerable requiring high priority of corrective action" on the National Bridge Inventory. It is the shortest covered bridge in the county and as of 2015 had average daily traffic of 50 vehicles.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1911:

Established by Clara Zetkin, Käte Duncker, and others, the first International Women's Day was observed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Zetkin

1962:

Influential American musician Bob Dylan released his eponymous debut album, mainly comprising traditional folk songs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan

1987:

American televangelist Jim Bakker resigned as the host of The PTL Club in the midst of a sex scandal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker

2016:

Flydubai Flight 981 crashed during an aborted landing at Rostov-on-Don Airport, Russia, resulting in the deaths of all 62 passengers and crew on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flydubai_Flight_981

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

skulduggery: 1. (countable) A devious device or trick. 2. (uncountable) Dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or behaviour. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skulduggery

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

No one I know of has foreseen an America like the one we live in today. No one (except perhaps the acidic H. L. Mencken, who famously described American democracy as "the worship of jackals by jackasses") could have imagined that the 21st-century catastrophe to befall the U.S.A., the most debasing of disasters, would appear not, say, in the terrifying guise of an Orwellian Big Brother but in the ominously ridiculous commedia dell’arte figure of the boastful buffoon.   --Philip Roth https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Roth