by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 29, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in Mobile and have been working at Wintzell’s for five years since I was 15. I started out working in the dish room, but one night they didn’t have someone to shuck oysters and I did it and figured it out. I had the ambition to go into the military, but...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 25, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I always wanted to be a writer and spent nearly 30 years in the newspaper business. I started with my high school job as a copy boy in Richmond, VA. I went to Columbia Journalism School and got my master’s in journalism. I was a reporter for the Birmingham Post...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 24, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“We started the Society of Monstrous Women because you can put on a mask and be whatever you want to be. You can push back on what society thinks a monstrous woman is and be a monstrous woman. All of our costumes have meaning. This is the mother costume because...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 23, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in South Carolina. I moved in with one of my sisters at the age of 14. My sister’s husband was transferred to Mobile and we moved to Daphne. Everyone swears I went to high school with them. Vigor, B.C. Raines, Shaw, Murphy, McGill. But I...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 22, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I am from China but I have been in Mobile for 26 years. I was 18 when I came here. It was hard to go to high school when I didn’t speak English. The kids laughed at me and made fun of me. I had to take English as a second language classes. It was...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 20, 2020 | A Southern Soul
Jess: I was an entrepreneur since I was 16. Babysitting, then later selling Avon and Mary Kay. A friend who worked with my fiance was one of the first owners of the Hotdogery food truck. Two years ago they asked me to help on the truck part time to make some cash. My...
