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First In a series
By Don Audette
Special to the Rappahannock News
The Covington River Bridge at Rediviva is in the news lately. The Virginia Department of Transportation would like to dispose of the bridge as it is unsafe for use, but a number of local people still want to use the bridge, and many have fond memories of it and Rediviva Road from their youth.
The Old Days
For some who were young in the 1940s and 1950s, the Covington River Bridge was a well-known “Lover’s Lane.” There was nothing like being in a car with the radio on, your girlfriend next to you, a full moon in sight, and listening, say, to Glenn Miller’s orchestra playing “Moonlight Serenade,” or Elvis singing, “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You,” or hearing Jo Ann Campbell’s husky rendition of “Woverton Mountain.” It was then that the car windows would start steaming up. John Anderson remembers four or five cars there at a time. He lived on Rediviva Road and says, “There are a lot of Rappahannockers who were conceived on the Covington River Bridge.”
In a phone interview, Mr. William Buntin, who was a State Trooper in Rappahannock County at that time,
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