Good Times and Growing Pains (1978)
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Vol. 5, No. 1
Excerpt from Introduction:
This issue, which marks the beginning of our fifth year, combines a number of articles about the good times and growing pains of a South reaching national maturity. It seems appropriate for us to answer, at this time, some of our readers' questions about who we re and what Southern Exposure represents.
Early observers thought we'd never make it this far with a regional journal so critical of the powers that be and so preoccupied with the lesser known people, with the struggles and heritage of a culture considered bankrupt by sophisticated America. But, like the South, we have attained a new stability, partly from the spin-off of the media search for Jimmy Carter's South (they have yet to find it) and partly from our appeal to the same hunger for connections to a past, a place, a people, that made Roots a meaningful event for so many.
Contents:
- 2 Letters From Our Readers
- 4 "And None of Them Left-Handed": Midwife From Plains
- 13 Coming Up Southern
- 19 The First Year's Sowing
- 22 A Stranger in the House
- 32 Journey to the White House: The Story of Coca-Cola
- 43 Jimmy Carter: Master Magician
- 45 Jimmy Carter and "Populism"
- 47 Railroad Fever
- 59 Just As I Am: Growing Up Gay
- 66 People, Place, Persistence: A Victory for Neighborhoods
- 75 Beale Street Blues
- 80 Celebrate Freedom: J uneteenth
- 88 Living Off the Sea
- 92 Resources
- 94 Book Reviews
- 96 Amerikan Bandstand /poem by Jack Boozer
- 99 Untitled /poem by Steven Ward
- 103 The South: A Market for Shoes /poem by Stephen March
- 104 Louisiana Down Home /poem by Garland Strother
- 105 To Claudia, Second Poem /poem by Manning Marable
- 106 Books on the South
