Protect the bricks, and community, at Harrison

This is the story of a brick. This red brick along with many of his other brick friends held together to build a large school. These bricks called the land between K and L avenues on Sixth Street NW a home. They were part of a large school. A school built to educate the people of the Time Check neighborhood. A building to protect them and keep people warm as they learned to be a proud person.

One night a fire destroyed this great school. Today, if you dig in the ground where the school was you will find parts of this great brick building. Yes, my friend, that school was the first Harrison school.

A new Harrison school was built. It, too, is a large, pretty school held together by bricks. It, too, has helped so many people to become great people. It stands so proud with so many great trees helping to keep the brick school cool in the summer. It shares its great land space with the children it protects.

One wonders what will become of the bricks from the second Harrison school. I will miss the great teachers from my time at Harrison - Miss Walter, Miss Springsteen and Mrs. Soup.

This has been a story about a brick but not just any brick. Please let us have the wisdom to protect this little brick and its many brick friends holding together to be a building called Harrison Elementary School.

Francis King

Cedar Rapids