by Lynn Oldshue | May 9, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I have two amazing girls and was a single mom for a long time. Their father wasn’t in their lives, so I pushed hard to make a better life for the three of us. There were times I didn’t know where we were going to live and what we were going to do. I...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 5, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I didn’t appreciate Yazoo City until after I left. Outsiders think we are from a poor, small town in a state last in education. But traveling outside of Mississippi helped me understand that I wasn’t as unfortunate as the world told me I was. Being from...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 3, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“My parents divorced when I was four. I went to St. Andrew’s School in Jackson through the eighth grade. It was becoming increasingly difficult for my mother to work full-time to support us, get me to cheerleader practice, and keep all of the balls in the...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 2, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I’ll be 90 on August 3. My first memory is of a woman standing in a doorway. Her skin color was beautiful. It was like coffee with cream in it. She wore a long dress that was muted in color. It had probably been washed a lot. My mother called her and she said,...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 1, 2021 | A Southern Soul
Gene: “My granddad walked here from Water Valley driving a few cows. It was probably just after the year 1900. His brother bought a little piece of land on the Sunflower River and told my granddad to come down. They cleared the land with a chopping ax and a handsaw....
by Lynn Oldshue | Apr 30, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“My name is Robert. I’m 80 and was born in July, but I never kept up with the date. I grew up in Phillipp. It’s by Clarksdale and one of those little towns that were once all around. Shepherdtown was close to here, but they shut it down. There were...
