by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 28, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“We have been hiking in the mountains all day. We wear dresses and jewelry with everything we do. It is part of our Russian traditions and you get used to it. Our ancestors fought hard to get here and held onto their traditions while coming from Russia to...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 27, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in Rich, Mississippi, on the north end of the Mississippi Delta, outside of Tunica. Rich was just a gas station and store with a little town around it. My grandmother had a farm way back in the woods. We could hear people coming for miles. I grew up...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 26, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in Mobile. In 1958, my friend Bobby McBride and I were in Point Clear at Jim Delaney’s house shucking oysters and drinking beer. I looked at a Life magazine and the cover was Alaska’s statehood. I knew I wanted to go. Bobby and I came to Alaska...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 25, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I am from California but I have been in Arkansas for the last six years. My friend came to Alaska last year and invited me to come with her. I work in a food truck and clean in Airbnbs. This is my first summer in Alaska and everyone says it is slow here. They say it...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 25, 2020 | A Southern Soul
I am cleaning red salmon. This is salmon season and my husband stands in the water and catches them with dip net with big hoops. It is easier with a boat, but we didn’t have a boat this year. He started fishing about midnight when there were fewer people fishing...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 23, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I worked at an inner-city church in Redding, Pennsylvania. My wife and I wanted to get our kids out of the rat race in the Mid-Atlantic states. I found this job as executive director at New Hope Compassionate Ministries in Anchorage. Nine months later, we moved our...
