Madlan Partee

This year, Operation Shoestring wanted to celebrate our grandparents in style. With support from the Community Foundation for Mississippi, we recorded mini-oral histories with 12 Shoestring grandparents about the holiday traditions, meals, and gatherings that keep the holidays bright. These recordings range from 1 minute to 8 minutes long: listen to a new story every day, from Monday, December 11th through Friday, December 22nd. Happy Holidays!

Hear Madlan’s holiday traditions:

Find the other History for the Holidays stories, releasing throughout December!

Interviews were conducted by Kearani Miller and Porshia Jordan. Recordings were also possible thanks to an extraordinary planning and events committee, whose members include Anastasia Shed, Kimberly Cotton, Velika Michael, Shalaun Davis, Sophia Beverly, and Star Pool.