by Lynn Oldshue | Sep 23, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in the community of Grace, outside Rolling Fork, Mississippi. I feel like my family made up most of the community. Everybody was a farmer. School was 20 miles away. Greenville was the big city 30 miles north of us. We were in the middle of nowhere. I lived...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 30, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“My uncle used to fly me in to play gigs with him at The People’s Room. That was all I knew about Mobile. I was in Los Angeles when the Palisades fire happened. There weren’t any gigs, and it was a stressful time. It felt like staying would keep me stuck, so I...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 24, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I was born in 1922 in Wheeler, Mississippi. At two years old, we moved to De Kalb, Mississippi. So I lived there in Kemper County until I was 13 years old. We lived in a great big house with two stories, and we opened the windows and had a cross breeze and fans. That...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 23, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I was born in Seminole, Oklahoma. My ancestors moved there from Mississippi after the Civil War. They ate all of their seed corn, then moved to Oklahoma because they were starving. They leased land from the Indians and tried to farm. My dad was born in 1919, and his...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 22, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I’ve been out here living homeless almost three weeks. This is the 19th day. It’s so hot. It took me a week to learn not to camp by the pavement because of the heat coming off it. I’m out here to raise awareness about homelessness and to love on people. I did...
