by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 9, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I taught fashion design, home ec, and financial literacy at Fairhope High School for four years and loved it. I started the program and they let me take off with it. I taught students how to design and make their own clothes. I took them to New York and Europe, and...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 7, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I was diagnosed with a speech impediment at four years old. I am thankful for the YWCA at Toulminville because it gave me speech training at a young age. I didn’t want to read in front of the class or speak at all, but the mentors in my life never gave up...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 6, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I ran for class president at Fairhope High School in August because having a voice is important. I was a president or officer at several clubs at school and I planned to run for senior class president since I was in middle school. I was an advocate for the...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 5, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I am out here to show my family and friends that I support them. I have never been scared to be pulled over at a traffic stop. I don’t want them to be either. We all work, pay taxes, and fight in wars. We want the same things for our families. Some of us...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 4, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“Sitting at home, I got tired of social media and it made me sick to see the state of the world. I wanted to get out here and show Fairhope and as far as this message can go that some people here are talking about it. That we should be talking about it. We have...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 3, 2020 | A Southern Soul
My family moved to Prichard at the age of seven. I had severe case of dyslexia and got lost in school. Back then, people in the South didn’t recogniz dyslexia and they used the term ‘retarded.’ I had to fight my way through. I moved up North in 1967...
