by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 17, 2024 | A Southern Soul
“I was raised in Money, Mississippi. My dad was a sharecropper, and I helped him pick cotton. He also had side hustles to support his nine kids. One of those hustles was making moonshine and selling it to juke joints. My job was filling the containers with...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 15, 2024 | A Southern Soul
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by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 11, 2024 | A Southern Soul
“I was born on Cape Cod in New England. My dad served in the Navy during World War II. My mother left us after the war. I was eleven years old with four younger siblings. My dad had no one who could care for us, so we were placed in a state-operated children’s...
