by Lynn Oldshue | Jan 7, 2016 | Commentary
This week you may have read some of the stories from people of the Mississippi Delta. You should also read the story of Money, Mississippi. We went there to find Robert Johnson’s grave and Bobbie Gentry’s Tallahatchie Bridge, but found Bryant’s...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jan 7, 2016 | A Southern Soul
“I was raised here, but live in Loafer’s Glory, North Carolina. My grandparents had a cabin in the Appalachian Mountains and we stayed there every summer. The mountains are in my blood and they have been calling for a long time. I was supposed to go to...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jan 7, 2016 | A Southern Soul
“I have always been a science person and was a science teacher. When I was having horrible anxiety I met in Pensacola in a little group of friends with a medium. She said ‘Your husband is hanging with you.’ I thought that was weird, but she was...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jan 6, 2016 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in Nebraska, but my job brought me here in 1980. I didn’t know you could live like this and live close to a beach. I was an only child and I don’t have a lot of family, so I created family with my friends here. My wish for 2016 is to find...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jan 6, 2016 | A Southern Soul
“I have lived in the Delta all of my life and I like it. It was weird growing up here because there weren’t a lot of people like me. You have to live here by choice and embrace it and overcome the problems. It doesn’t have to control you. I used to...
