by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 10, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“Childhood was rough. My mom is white and my dad is black. The white side of our family is racist. My mom was homeless with us for a long time because we were mixed kids. I didn’t meet my grandmother until we were six. My mom married a man who sexually abused me...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 9, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“I was ‘Baby Miss Alabama’ and ‘Dixie Sweetheart,’ and won 48 trophies in beauty pageants by the age of eight. Some of the trophies were six feet tall. I dreamed of being a dancer or an actress, not a stripper. My father started molesting...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 8, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“I am from Augusta, Georgia but I ride with the Buffalo Soldiers from Columbia, South Carolina. We are in Mobile to celebrate the honorable legacy of the 9th and 10th Calvary. Buffalo Soldiers were the first African Americans who were allowed to participate in...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 7, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in Hamilton, Alabama. I was 17 when I enlisted in 1942. I wanted to get out of farming. I didn’t want to plow with a mule and horse anymore. We went to the Atlantic and Normandy and southern France. Then went to Iwo Jima and Okinawa. I was a lookout...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 6, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“My wife died in April. We were married for 72 years. I am 95 years old. I grew up in upstate New York during the Depression. My father lost everything in 1930, including the house. We moved to New York City into a cold apartment. There was no hot water so we...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 5, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“We are from New Mexico. We left on the 25th of May and are on a road trip driving to North Carolina with his job. Every time we cross into a new state, I make them take a picture with the sign. There will be a photo book of these pictures one day. There is...
