by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 28, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I’ve always been drawn to the special needs population. I was involved in a program in my high school that trained intellectually delayed teenagers to work at a nearby plant so they would have a job when they graduated. When I moved to Mobile for college,...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 21, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“My name is Wren, and I am eight years old. I like wearing capes and pretending to be a bat and that I can fly. Or I pretend that I am a Ninja. I have another cape with my name on it. I live in Massachusetts and we have been here for a few months while my dad works. I...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 20, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“The name of my balloon is Pondemonium. I live in Colorado and have been ballooning for thirty years. I had three teenage boys and was beginning to think I couldn’t do anything right. My life was all about boys. I needed my own thing. I started crewing for a hot...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 16, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I am sixth generation of born and raised in New Orleans. I have lived there my whole life. I went to Springhill College in Mobile for my undergraduate degree. I have wanted to come to Joe Cain for 20 years, but normally I would be doing Bacchus, one of the biggest...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 15, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“We are the Pelican Girls. In 1704, Fort Louis at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff was full of young, French soldiers who were harassing the native women. Bienville wrote to the king asked him to send nice young women to marry the men. They scoured the orphanages and found 23...
