by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 19, 2018 | A Southern Soul
“I am going to be a sophomore in high school. Last year was my first year in the South. My mom is from Mobile and we visited every year. I have a complex family tree and am an only child with different groups of stepbrothers and stepsisters. I have lived in 13 houses...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 17, 2018 | A Southern Soul
“I was raised in the country in Louisiana. We rode horses and 4-wheelers and raised everything we ate. My grandfathers on both sides of the family were sheriffs. If I acted up, I got in trouble with everyone. I played football in Daphne and at Kansas State. I got hurt...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 15, 2018 | A Southern Soul
“I go alligator hunting in the Chattahoochee River. I sit in the river, water up to my neck. If I can see an alligator, I can call him. I snap my fingers on the surface of the water and he thinks it is a bunch of brim biting. No alligator can resist a fresh fish and...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 14, 2018 | A Southern Soul
“This was known as Bloody Tug Valley in West Virginia, one of the bloodiest places in the United States. My family started this community. My 5th great grandfather, Richard Ferrell, hunted this land with his dog, Mate. They walked in from Nre Garden Settlement Fort...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 13, 2018 | A Southern Soul
“It has been a 20-year fight to finally get Blair Mountain on the National Register of Historic Places last week. We have been to permit meetings for years and many of our friends and neighbors were mad about us trying to protect this mountain from mining. Many...
