Barnstormers and Cloud Busters-Fairview
During the pioneering years of aviation when it was considered more of a
sport than a business, Erie County became a mecca for pilots and planes.
With barnstormers who performed for the amazement of the audience
below, these aviators dove and spiraled, raced and looped, set records and
sometimes defied the laws of nature. It was a glorious, exciting time, filled
with wonder and danger.
– Sabina Freeman, B.A.
Fairview event to be held at Lincoln Community
Center Library (1255 Manchester Road, Erie, PA 16505)
Jefferson Satellite Programs at Fairview are in partnership with
Sabina S. Freeman, B.A.
Sabina Shields Freeman holds a BA in Journalism from The Ohio State University. For several years she wrote a history column about Fairview for Girard’s Cosmopolite, later publishing these articles as books. She is a charter member of Erie Yesterday and served on the Perry 200 Commission. Freeman has researched and written several books on aspects of local and area history and has lectured on these subjects at the Jefferson Educational Society. She is currently working on a biography of Dan Rice, whom she believes was the most talented circus showman of the 19th Century.
