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...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 22, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“Twenty years ago I was living in San Diego. I visited my brother in Anchorage and never went back. I moved here in 2002, and it still feels like I am on vacation. I am originally from Mexico. My mom still lives in California and asks me why I live so far away...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 21, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“We are sisters and she is our cousin. Our mom got a job here and brought us to Anchorage from Nebraska for a better life. Other members of our family were already out here. When our mom told us we were moving here, we said hell no. She is the single mother of seven...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 20, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I am a street pastor. The natives were taught from long age to hate white people because we took their land. I have to keep breaking down barriers and showing them I am not the one who did that. There are churches on every corner in Anchorage because there are...
