by Lynn Oldshue | Nov 20, 2016 | A Southern Soul
“I am getting acorns together and I am going to be ready in the morning at the bus stop. They count how many times they can hit me. Sometimes they throw handfuls at a time. I am looking for the biggest ones and I am going to have my ammunition ready. They got me...
by Lynn Oldshue | Nov 19, 2016 | A Southern Soul
I came to New Orleans in 2009. I lived in Florida for 27 years and I left when the economy shut down. I have worked in film and haunted houses and became a street performer because it was the only way I could make a living. I came here and tried for five years to...
by Lynn Oldshue | Nov 18, 2016 | A Southern Soul
“My husband’s daughter had a massive stroke when she was 34. She led a bad life and that is one of the reasons she had a stroke. She had four kids who were messed up children and I inherited them overnight, a 15-month-old baby, a 5-year-old little boy, and...
by Lynn Oldshue | Nov 16, 2016 | A Southern Soul
“I work at Doster Construction and we were the project manager for the renovation of the Van Antwerp building. I thought I would go into sales when I went to college, but went to Vietnam and built and repaired bridges. That is how I got into construction. The...
by Lynn Oldshue | Nov 15, 2016 | A Southern Soul
“My family was one of the first families in Fairhope and owned land but sold it to buy farmland. My grandmother was white and someone killed her when she was walking back from the city dump because she was married to a black man. Her name was Sadie Denton and no...
