(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) WINTERSET — Motorized Nikon F camera raised, Clint Eastwood leaped around the corner of the Holliwell Covered Bridge ...

Though just six covered bridges survive from the original 19 in Madison County, Iowa, they remain the largest group of covered bridges in the western half of the Mississippi Valley. The bridges ...

Now comes Signature Theatre’s production of “The Bridges of Madison County,” Brown’s 2014 musical adaptation, with playwright Marsha Norman, of the steamy bestseller by Robert James Waller.

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.

The famed bridges of Madison County are rapidly approaching a potential cause of demise: old age. The county's budget for road repairs already is limited, and leaders believe its 17,000 residents ...