by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 10, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“Hurricane Irma chased us to Fairhope from Miami a year and a half ago. We packed our two cars with our two kids, two cats and dog and evacuated with the rest of Florida. There was no place to stay through Pensacola. Effie rolled down her window and asked what...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 9, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“My dad’s family were farmers who migrated to Elberta from upstate New York because they thought the area would be better for my great grandmother’s allergies. They were dirt poor and started farming grass by going with what worked that year. Grass started...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 8, 2019 | A Southern Soul
”The wreck was May 8, 2015. I was ejected from my Jeep. I didn’t have the doors on. She hit me on the driver’s side back tire and I flew out. I broke my pelvis and my tailbone and had wicked road rash from my knee to up my back. I still have a scar from...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 7, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“I am a direct descendant of Charlie Lewis, one of the last surviving slaves of the Clotilda and Cudjo Lewis’ brother. Charlie was also one of the founders of Union Missionary Baptist Church and Africatown. They called Charlie ‘Papa’ and he was in...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 6, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“I started Innocent Eyes 13 years ago when I was a special agent to posing as a teen online to protect kids against online sexual exploitation. Cell phones became part of our culture and we are all addicted. Children get phones and constant access to the...
