At 6:00 PM (EST), 12 February 2022, I vicariously boarded the Casey Family Train of peace and freedom seekers inside of a Louisville and Nashville (L&N) Railroad passenger coach. The tour guide was Janice Casey Bond. She took me back to Martha Scarborough, Columbus Casey - those who endured the institution of slavery. I watched ancestors leave Alabama and discover newness in Louisville, Kentucky and Clarksville, Indiana. She showed me the life of a little girl who became a woman amid segregation, racial slurs, and a lack of historical awareness. Janice’s discoveries showed her, on several occasions, that her history would become more than what she knew.
