by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 23, 2024 | A Southern Soul
Working on this week’s Our Southern Souls Sunday newsletter. If you’d like to have this weekend’s stories delivered straight to your inbox on Sunday morning, click here. There will also be a couple of flashback stories and bonus bits that are only in the newsletter....
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 18, 2024 | A Southern Soul
Holley: “Only one person can have a ‘poopie day,’ and that’s me. I dressed up as Spookie Dookie a month ago. Now, if I’m having a bad day, I put on this costume and ride around Fairhope in my golf cart with Rick Rick, handing out poop stickers and telling people to...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 17, 2024 | A Southern Soul
“I was raised in Money, Mississippi. My dad was a sharecropper, and I helped him pick cotton. He also had side hustles to support his nine kids. One of those hustles was making moonshine and selling it to juke joints. My job was filling the containers with...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 15, 2024 | A Southern Soul
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by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 11, 2024 | A Southern Soul
“I was born on Cape Cod in New England. My dad served in the Navy during World War II. My mother left us after the war. I was eleven years old with four younger siblings. My dad had no one who could care for us, so we were placed in a state-operated children’s...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 29, 2024 | A Southern Soul
Here’s the cover of Our Southern Souls Vol. ll. Pre-sale starts at the beginning of September and the book comes out in October. Seeing all of these beautiful faces in one place makes me happy.
