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Olive Kitteridge is a 2008 novel or short story cycle by American author Elizabeth Strout. [1] [2] Set in Maine in the fictional coastal town of Crosby, it comprises 13 stories that are interrelated but narratively discontinuous and non-chronological. [2] Olive Kitteridge is a main character in some stories and has a lesser or cameo role in ...
Olive Kitteridge is an American television miniseries based on Elizabeth Strout's 2008 novel Olive Kitteridge.Set in Maine, [1] the HBO miniseries features Frances McDormand as the title character, Richard Jenkins as Olive's loving husband Henry Kitteridge, Zoe Kazan as Denise Thibodeau, and Bill Murray as Jack Kennison. [2]
A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure. [1] The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather.
This 86.5-foot-long (26.4 m), 18.66-foot-wide (5.69 m), Howe truss bridge was built in 1855. It was renovated by the Works Progress Administration in 1939, and by the city of Philadelphia in 2000. [2] It is the only remaining covered bridge in Philadelphia and is the only covered bridge in a major US city.
Examples of truss construction on covered bridges include Howe, Town Lattice, Queen-post, King-post, Haupt, Burr, Brown and Pratt. Of the existing historic covered bridges in Alabama, the Gilliland-Reese Covered Bridge and the Old Union Crossing Covered Bridge are classified as non-authentic based on their current construction.
Olive Kitteridge is based on the novel of the same name by Elizabeth Strout. [12] Bill Murray, Jesse Plemons, Zoe Kazan, and John Gallagher Jr. co-starred. [13] Olive Kitteridge premiered at the 2014 Venice Film Festival to overwhelmingly positive reviews. [14] [15] The show received widespread critical acclaim when it premiered on television ...
The Old Covered Bridge is a c. 1941 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 81 and signed "Moses". It has been in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum since 1957. [1]
Covered bridges are timber-truss bridges with a roof and siding which, in most covered bridges, create an almost complete enclosure. [1]The purpose of the covering is to keep snow from accumulating—winter snow accumulation could easily collapse a bridge, and the steep roof would tend to shed snow to either side.