by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 22, 2017 | A Southern Soul
This story begins a series on people escaping war and persecution around the world and finding refuge and safety in Mobile. “I have a need to go out into the hardest places and work with the hardest people. I ended up in Mobile trying to get a community to care...
by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 18, 2017 | A Southern Soul
“My cousins traveled and I wanted to travel so I hopped on a freight train and started traveling. I was 15 years old and have been doing this for 15 years. I have been to Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, Mexico. I was locked up in Guatemala and extradited to the US....
by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 17, 2017 | A Southern Soul
“I was a designer for cabinetry for years and it wasn’t going anywhere and I missed being downtown. Spot of Tea needed someone who likes to talk to people, likes history and likes to be downtown. The helmet sold me. They created a walking map and a script...
by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 15, 2017 | A Southern Soul
“My courtroom is ground zero for the good, the bad and the ugly in this community, but there is so much good. I love what I do. Before I was a judge, I was an assistant DA and sent a lot of young people to prison who were 15 and 16 years old. They were all high school...
by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 14, 2017 | A Southern Soul
“Art is a great generosity, that is my definition. It is giving everything of yourself. When I am finished painting, I am exhausted because I have given it all I have. I was black and lived in Paris in former lives. I was raised on the Bible and Oscar Wilde and...
by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 13, 2017 | A Southern Soul
“We have been together about five weeks. We have known each other a couple of years.” “I had to ask him out.” “I thought she was in another relationship and I was trying to be a gentleman. I didn’t see how anything like this could...
