by Lynn Oldshue | Sep 5, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in Hayneville between Montgomery and Selma. I taught for 24 years, most of that time was fourth grade. My students are my children, my babies. Every year, I taught them about the Civil Rights Movement before our field trip to the Civil Rights Museum. It is...
by Lynn Oldshue | Sep 3, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I started volunteering at the Food Bank. I was jobless for a while and this is my way of giving my time back to the Lord. I am attending school to get my associate’s degree in theological ministry to be an ordained minister. I felt like that was my calling for...
by Lynn Oldshue | Sep 1, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I was adopted when I was less than a year old. My mom told me October 5, 2015. I was 21 years old. My parents kept it to themselves over the years to protect me from the life I could have been living. But to find out was devastating. At the same time, so many...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 30, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“Torment is how I would describe the last two years. Reece took his life on February 12, 2018. He was 17. We didn’t see it coming. Reece was popular and smart. He was in the IB program at Fairhope High School, but he didn’t do something correctly and...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 29, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in Indiana. We lived on a farm during the Depression. We grew potatoes, field corn, and tomatoes and never went hungry. I had a slingshot when I was a kid and got pretty good shooting rocks. When I was 14 or 15 I shot a robin and killed him. That was not my...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 27, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I have been picking up trash every day in downtown Mobile for about three years. I go down Government, Dauphin, Broad, and Spring Hill. I pick up paper, McDonald’s and Burger King bags, diapers and baby wipes. There are lots of cigarette butts and beer...
