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The Bridges of Madison County (also published as Love in Black and White) [1] is a 1992 best-selling romance novel [2] [3] by American writer Robert James Waller that tells the story of an Italian-American World War II war bride living on a farm in 1960s Madison County, Iowa.
The Bridges of Madison County is set in 1965 and features Italian war bride, Francesca Johnson (Meryl Streep), who lives with her husband and two children on their Iowa farm. That year she meets National Geographic photojournalist, Robert Kincaid ( Clint Eastwood ), who comes to Madison County, Iowa to photograph its historic covered bridges .
The Bridges of Madison County (1992; original UK title Love in Black and White) Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend (1993); ISBN 0-446-51653-8; Puerto Vallarta Squeeze (1995) Border Music (1995) A Thousand Country Roads: An Epilogue to The Bridges of Madison County (2002) High Plains Tango (2005) The Long Night of Winchell Dear (2007)
The bridges of Madison County, Iowa, were made famous by a book and a Meryl Streep/Clint Eastwood film. Weakened by old age, the bridges need repairs.
The Madison County Chamber of Commerce estimates that the bridges combined see more than 50,000 visitors every year. Those travelers spent nearly $19.2 million in 2022, up from $13 million in 2016.
The Bridges of Madison County is a musical, based on Robert James Waller's 1992 novel, with a book by Marsha Norman and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown.The musical premiered on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on February 20, 2014, and closed on May 18, 2014.
Today, only six covered bridges remain in Madison County. The Holliwell Covered Bridge, built in 1880, crosses the Middle River two miles southeast of Winterset. It carried vehicular traffic until ...
Cedar Bridge refers to three different bridges in Madison County, in the U.S. state of Iowa. The original Cedar Covered Bridge was built in 1883, [4] moved in 1921, and was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The bridge was filmed in the 1995 movie The Bridges of Madison County [5] and destroyed by arson in 2002. [6]