by Dan Eakin
The stories about the train mural brought back to my memory a story I heard many years ago. If someone knows this story better than me, please email me a letter and help me to get it more accurate.
In the late 1880s, after the slaves had been freed, a young black man went north from Alabama, maybe to New Jersey, where he got a job as a janitor.
He loved his freedom, but he missed…