![]() ![]() ![]() It started as a triangular area bounded by Springhill, Freeport and Burtner roads and grew from there. Will others find it so? “I think they will,” he said.Īlthough never incorporated, Birdville existed as a postal address in Harrison from 1899 to 1927, when it became Natrona Heights. “I wanted it to be a book I was interested in.” ![]() He and his wife, Lori, live nearby in the house in which he grew up.Īt 740 pages, collecting the history of the school and its neighborhood took twice as long as Barrage expected, and the resulting product has four times as many words - 320,000. The airmail system that operated there in the 1940s is only one facet of the history of the school and its neighborhood covered in his book, eight years in the making.īarrage, 59, is an architect who attended Birdville School for kindergarten through sixth grade from 1965 to 1972. That’s why a blueprint-style image of a plane over the school is featured on the cover of Bob Barrage’s new book, “Birdville School - A Portrait of Small-Town America in the 20th Century.” The two-man, single engine propeller-driven planes would come in low near Birdville School, using a hook to collect mail from a station in the school’s backyard. Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series that features Alle-Kiski Valley people and the notable things that they do.ĭecades ago, approaching planes would send elementary students in Harrison running back to their classrooms. ![]()
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