Darrell Burrell was a history/geography teacher at the old Nova High School whose wife donated his old slides to the Shasta Historical Society after his death on April 24, 2013. During the 1960’s and 1970’s, Mr. Burrell would take a plane ride over the Redding area to document the growth of the county through aerial photos. Along with the aerial shots, the slides also contained a few of his old lectures that included the annexation of Enterprise and the arguments for and against annexation.
This online exhibit was created by local college student, Anneliese Sanders. “I first found out about the Shasta Historical Society through my history teacher at Shasta College when he offered an alternative assignment in place of writing the final paper. While I didn’t take the alternative assignment, the Historical Society was always in the back of my mind and I decided to volunteer during the summer between my sophmore and junior years of college. The first project I had was sorting through the slides that Mrs. Burrell donated and organizing them. There were some clearly marked slides that belonged together and those slides turned out to be Mr. Burrell’s old lectures, one of which is presented here.”
