On a Rainy Day in Brunswick, GA...

   I saw an article in the local paper the other day about an incident. It happened on the corner of Lee Street and L Street.

   Now you have to know that in the section of Brunswick, GA, lying just north of downtown, the streets that run east and west, running from US 17 on the marsh to US 341, which runs along the waterfront, are indicated by letters, like J and K and L and M. The cross streets going north and south are regular street names, a lot of them named for people.

   The section is not an affluent neighborhood. It looks dirt poor for the most part and contains some housing projects. It is not populated by middle class white southern citizens.

   The one thing that I recall hearing about this section of town, was from a friend of mine who forbade his mother-in-law to ever drive down L Street.

   After I read that previously mentioned article, I remembered seeing Lee Street when we were in that area one time, and I was struck by the other streets around it, as to how they were named.

   So one rainy day, Mayre and I went back over there and checked the names of other nearby streets.. Here is what we found...

  Six consecutive streets named after Confederate generals in this one area. The five above plus Stonewall Street, whose picture did not turn out well.

   I imagine, but don't know for sure, that this area was white when the streets were named, but it is anything but right now.

   In these days of statue removal, and other symbols of the Civil War era being protested, I have to wonder whether street names will be on the protest circuit anytime soon, and, if so, will it work its way down to Brunswick?

   And what do the current residents think?

   I wonder..