"While everyone has heard of the Swallows that return each spring to Capistrano, only a few know of the Swallows that return just as regularly each year to Saxonburg near my home. The difference is a good press agent! The first Purple Martin colony was established in this little Pennsylvania village in the days of Christian Stuebgen, who came from Germany well over a hundred years ago.  The martins have been returning to Saxonburg during the first week of April ever since."  - An excerpt from American Birds in Color; Land Birds 1948 by Hal Harrison, a renowned bird photographer from Western Pennsylvania (deceased):