It’s been nearly 60-years since the bus made its’ memorable mark on American history. For decades buses have been responsible for transcending subjects like music, race, politics, economics, civil-rights, and education. They have been the primary catalyst for evolution, and change. I’ve often thought that the bus could be compared to the barbershop. I mean that with respect to the similar degrees of monumental discussions, and movements taking place in parallel. Much like the barbershop, the bus has fostered many conversations with all of its' subjects sitting in one place. It was around the ages of 5 or 6 when this lesson began manifesting for me. In my youth, my mother and I would take frequent bus rides from High Point, North Carolina to Pittsboro, North Carolina, where grandparents lived. On those rides I can remember taking it all in. There was something about the sign locations, the view, the smells, the sounds, and even the routes that we traveled that h