File:Bergstresser - Dietz covered bridge in Canal Winchester - DPLA - a3fe2b07f38b3f19d8daa0432a0437ad.jpg

Photograph taken by A. V. Shirk of the last remaining covered bridge in Franklin County, Ohio. This is the Bergstresser / Dietz covered bridge, located within the village limits of Canal Winchester in southeastern Franklin County. The wooden bridge crosses Little Walnut Creek. The bridge was constructed in 1887 by the Columbus Bridge Company.. Reuban L. Partridge, company vice president, supervised the building, using his patented truss system consisting of double and triple truss members constructed of pine and oak. Albin Vineyard Shirk, commonly known as “A.V.” was born on April 8, 1938. He grew up in Ohio and graduated from Worthington High School, later attending The Ohio State University in the late 1950s. AV worked at the Columbus Dispatch in the Classified Advertising Department, but in 1960 he got a job with WOSU and did music programming and also started producing his own radio shows until 1964. He recorded many of the folk music and protest music concerts performed in the University area. Most of these were held at the Sacred Mushroom coffee house, owned by Miles and Joan Gibbons or at Larry's bar. Both venues were located on North High Street across from the OSU campus. He then went into commercial photography, and worked at a variety of jobs, eventually relocating to Tucson, Arizona in 1976. He returned to Columbus in 1996.