Covered Bridge

In this award-winning paean to country life we find Hubbo O'Driscoll, whom we first met in Easy Avenue, now living in the lower Gatineau with his guardian aunt and uncle. When the local covered bridge — home to a wayward ghost and her lovelorn postman — is threatened by development, Hubbo must devise a strategy to save it. Centered on the theme of cherishing the past, Covered Bridge pits earnest Hubbo O'Driscoll against two determined, cynical land developers. Hubbo is beginning to enjoy the pleasures of country life while staying with his guardian aunt and uncle, and he even has a job as curator of the area's rustic covered bridge. When the old bridge — home to a wayward ghost and her lovelorn postman — is suddenly threatened by builders Ovide and Prootoo Proulx, Hubbo searches for a way to save it. Accompanied by his personable dog, Nerves, Hubbo tries to reconcile the charms of days gone by with the profit-driven demands of the present. At the last minute, help arrives in unexpected form: Foolish Father Foley from Farrelton, the two ghosts, and a crazy goat. But will it be enough to keep the old bridge of Mushrat Creek from demolition? Hubbo O'Driscoll, the earnest young hero from Easy Avenue, is back. He's living at Mushrat Creek in the Gatineau Hills and has found a new job as curator for the local covered bridge. Things seem to be looking up for Hubbo - until he learns that the covered bridge is going to be torn down for a new bridge. His job is over before it has begun. But Hubbo is resourceful, and with a little ingenuity - as well as the assistance of a ghost, a love-struck mailman and the local priest - he sets out to save the covered bridge, and his new job, from senseless demolition. When the local covered bridge, home to a wayward ghost and her lovelorn postman, is threatened by development, Hubbo O'Driscoll must devise a strategy to save it MY DOG NERVES and I stood in the almost dark inside the portal of the covered bridge.