More Southern Souls

“I played with Legos and painted a little bit when I was a kid.  I majored in architecture at Auburn and fell in love...

"My husband Tom and I moved here six years ago. We had worked with homeless kids and literacy in Birmingham and wanted...

“I am enjoying a week off. I recently moved to Corpus Christie, Texas for a job in the oil fields. I came back two...

Kimberly “I moved to Gulf Shores because of my grandbaby. I worked at Rouses when it opened in Gulf Shores. My oldest...

The final story in “The Souls of World War 2.” "I am the son of immigrants from Sweden and Denmark who settled in...

"I enlisted when I was 17 so I could have a choice of where I served. Otherwise, I would have been drafted and sent...

"I enlisted when I was 21, the week before the draft office would have grabbed me. I became a bomber pilot and had...

I grew up during the Depression. Dad was gone and we didn't have money. We put cardboard in the holes in the souls of...

"I am going to be 92. I am like the little boy who says, I am three, but I am going to be four next year. I was born...

“I was born in 1920 on a farm in Belle Plane, Wisconsin. There was no doctor so my father delivered all 12 of his...

“I am 92. I left home when I was 16 years old and went to work in the textile mills with my sister and her husband. I...

"June 6, 1944, is a day I will never forget. I wasn’t scared because I didn’t have time to be. It was hot in the tanks...