By Frederick A. Hurst
I know I’m not the only one with Georgia on my mind but I do think my perspective on current political events in Georgia might be a bit unique and certainly nostalgic.
Although I was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts along with my four siblings, both my grandmother and grandfather on my mother’s side migrated to Springfield from Georgia in the mid 1920s.
As my grandmother described it to me before she passed, my grandfather came North first looking for work and she came later by train with her two oldest boys, Lee and Frederick, my namesake, after my grandfather found work first with the railroad and later as a laborer for the City of Springfield. Their other two kids, Alton and the youngest, Jeanette, my mother, were born in Springfield. Eventually, all of my grandparent’s siblings left Georgia, some for New Jersey, some for New York and Detroit and some, as my grandmother told it, for places unknown.