by Lynn Oldshue | Nov 24, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“My grandparents, Jack and Mordie Arnold, moved back to Fairhope in 1930 because they wanted their eight children to attend the Organic School. I think the first house they lived in was the American Legion Building, then they moved out to a dairy. My grandfather was...
by Lynn Oldshue | Nov 21, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“My parents divorced, and I moved to Kansas City with my dad and visited my mom here every summer. I got in trouble for poor grades and was the angsty teenager who hated the world. In 2012, before my junior year in high school, they sent me back down here to live with...
by Lynn Oldshue | Nov 18, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in Semmes and was a yellow Azalea Trail Maid, but pink has been my favorite color ever since I can remember. It’s a happy color. My license tag says Pinky because that’s what everyone calls me. I have had this pink strand in my hair for...
by Lynn Oldshue | Nov 16, 2021 | A Southern Soul
These are pictures of kids helped through the Pledge Project putting their handprints on the mural created on the wall of the United Way of Southwest Alabama. It was painted by Ginger Woechan and the Mobile Arts Council to celebrate the work of the United Way. All...
by Lynn Oldshue | Nov 14, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I have cooked at Manci’s for six years and everyone calls me Mama. I grew up in Mobile and Prichard and went to Detroit every summer. I have always cared for people and done anything I could to help them. When I was two years old, my mom was cooking and left...
by Lynn Oldshue | Nov 13, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I dreamed of boats as a kid. My first sailboat was an abandoned sunfish that was hiding behind my neighbor’s shed. I was nine and built a mast out of a pine tree in the backyard. My brother grew up sailing and went around the world several times. He passed...
