by Lynn Oldshue | Apr 13, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I remember wanting to be an artist in fifth grade. I later worked for a Mardi Gras float builder making float sculptures out of paper mache, but I didn’t embrace being an artist until I became an activities specialist for Mobile Parks and Recreation three years ago....
by Lynn Oldshue | Apr 12, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“The joke is that everyone in Birmingham is one degree from my phone number. Maybe I come home too much. But I want to pour back into a place that poured into me. Getting on television and cheering on Birmingham and Alabama matters to me. You can’t live in...
by Lynn Oldshue | Apr 11, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“Camilla and I grew up on the same street in Daphne and went to the same church and school. When we met, I was 12, and she was 14 and a half. She was a pretty blonde girl, but girls don’t have much to do with boys who are that much younger. Our love affair got...
by Lynn Oldshue | Apr 5, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I was 19 and on my way to the Vietnam War when I got a letter from my mother at the mail call: she said my draft notice came in the mail. I told her to write ’em back and tell ’em I’m busy right now. I went into the military because I wasn’t college...
by Lynn Oldshue | Mar 29, 2025 | A Southern Soul
General Guy Hecker was raised by his mother, aunt, and grandmother on Springhill Avenue in Mobile. He was about 15 the first time he flew in an airplane. The pilot was a friend who had taken only a few flying lessons. “He didn’t know any more about flying than a...
by Lynn Oldshue | Mar 9, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I was arrested two times when I was 15. I proudly wear the honor of being a jailbird. It started when I participated in the student marches in Selma in 1965. My mother didn’t know that her only two children left school on that first day. My younger brother did...
