2/ "...the dream, pushing Springfield forward. As I slept on a Holiday Inn mattress, I didn’t know the city was governed in late 1960s by Ohio’s 1st Black mayor, one of 1st in nation since Reconstruction. In 2014, at seemingly rock bottom, civic leaders announced a plan to save a community that had lost 1/3 of its population by appealing to new immigrants — an idea that bore fruit 6 years later when a surge of legal Haitian migrants and a new breed of factory owner forged a beautiful friendship"