Southern Exposure was an award-winning print journal published by the Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, from 1973 until 2011. Southern Exposure earned a national reputation for its writing on a broad range of political and cultural issues in the South, with a special emphasis on investigative journalism and oral history.

On the 50th anniversary of Southern Exposure’s birth, Facing South and the Institute will be publishing a full digital archive of the journal over the course of the year. The initial installment of the archives available in March 2023 includes issues from the magazine’s launch in 1973 through 1981.

Vol. 13 No. 2/3 - March-June 1985
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Magazine cover with three photos of elderly people

Older Wiser Stronger: Southern Elders

  • Readers Corner

    Elizabeth Cousins Rogers

    2

  • Southern News Roundup

    3

  • Facing South

    Rebecca McCarthy

    7

  • Voices of Our Neighbors

    Louise Crane

    8

  • Older, Wiser, Stronger

    Mary Eldridge

    10

  • Old People's Day

    Michael Dane Moore

    14

  • The Measure of My Days

    Florida Scott-Maxwell

    19

  • "Don't Send Me Flowers When I'm Dead. I Want Them Now."

    Eva Salber, Dominic D'Eustchio, and Duncan Heron

    21

  • "It's In the Doing That You Get Your Strength"

    Janet Wells

    24

  • Percy Took Me By the Hand

    Willie Morris

    32

  • The Long View of Elder Activists

    Anne Braden

    34

  • Grassroots Power

    Jack Neely

    40

  • Attacking Elder Abuse

    interview with Charlotte Flynn, by Martha Boethel

    46

  • A Kids-Eye View of Elders

    John Puckett

    50

  • West Virginia Elders Make a Difference

    Beth Crittenden

    52

  • Communities on the Move

    Debora Bouton and Ingrid Canright

    57

  • Close, Close Peoples

    Jan Gilbert

    60

  • I'm Warning You

    Jo Carson

    61

  • Fifty Years of Eternal Vigilance

    Helen Boras

    62

  • The Older I Get, the Closer I Get to the Ground

    interview with Everettt Akers, by Kristin Layng and Joe Szakos

    68

  • Barbara Deming: 1917-1984

    Mab Segrest

    72

  • Makin' Gumbo

    Jan Gilbert

    76

  • The For-Profit Hospital Juggernaut

    Geri Dallek and Linda Lowe

    78

  • Tennessee's Real People

    Howard I. Scott, Jr.

    88

  • Citizen Participation is the Key to Victory

    Andrea Cooper

    94

  • Crone

    Nancy Breeze

    100

  • "I Never Had It So Good"

    Bernard Forer

    102

  • The Old Old in Florida

    Angie Cannon

    104

  • Home Is Where They Want to Be

    Millie Buchanan

    108

  • Now They've Got to Treat Folks Right

    113

  • Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform

    Janet Wells

    116

  • Persistence is the Key

    interview with Eddie Sandifer, by Ken Lawrence and Dick Harger

    120

  • "Doing the Right Thing"

    Evelyn May

    125

  • The Biggest Question Mark of All

    Garrett Epps

    126

  • An Experience with Death

    Ernest Morgan

    127

  • The Jazz Funeral

    Jules L. Cahn

    128

  • Growing Old Southern

    Stuart Rosenfeld and Mary Eldridge

    130

  • Promises to Keep

    Linda Rocawich

    133

  • Showdown at the White House

    Andrew Dobelstein and Ann Bilas Johnson

    135

  • SSI: What Does It Stand For?

    Richard J. Margolis

    137

  • Our Federal Health Programs Can Be Saved

    Claude Pepper

    140

  • Social Security

    Wilbur J. Cohen

    141

  • Friends and Others

    143

  • Resources

    148

  • Bulletin Board of the South

    151

  • A Voice of the Future

    Mary Brinkmeyer

    152
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