by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 29, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in Mobile and have been working at Wintzell’s for five years since I was 15. I started out working in the dish room, but one night they didn’t have someone to shuck oysters and I did it and figured it out. I had the ambition to go into the military, but...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 25, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I always wanted to be a writer and spent nearly 30 years in the newspaper business. I started with my high school job as a copy boy in Richmond, VA. I went to Columbia Journalism School and got my master’s in journalism. I was a reporter for the Birmingham Post...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 24, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“We started the Society of Monstrous Women because you can put on a mask and be whatever you want to be. You can push back on what society thinks a monstrous woman is and be a monstrous woman. All of our costumes have meaning. This is the mother costume because...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 23, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in South Carolina. I moved in with one of my sisters at the age of 14. My sister’s husband was transferred to Mobile and we moved to Daphne. Everyone swears I went to high school with them. Vigor, B.C. Raines, Shaw, Murphy, McGill. But I...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 22, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I am from China but I have been in Mobile for 26 years. I was 18 when I came here. It was hard to go to high school when I didn’t speak English. The kids laughed at me and made fun of me. I had to take English as a second language classes. It was...
