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INSIDE THE ISSUE FEBRUARY 2021

FEATURES 10 Date Night at Home Cozy up to a homemade chef-level dinner

18 The Music Plays On Lessons Continue Amid a Pandemic

24 Shoebox Collections The Knoxville History Project continues series of little-known photographs submitted by locals

32 Bailey Foster, Maker of “Real Good Kitchen” Knoxville native builds a food incubator

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Culinary Creations

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KNOXVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS REACH UNION AGREEMENT The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra (KSO) and the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 546 have reached an agreement that will bring the musicians of the KSO back to the stage

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indulgent Chocolatefest this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, locals are still encouraged to support the organization's patronage - the Ronald McDonald House. The Ronald McDonald House of

Tennessee

Knoxville provides a “home-away-from-home” for

Foundation is giving $250,000 to Second Harvest

families of seriously ill children receiving treatment

Food Bank of East Tennessee to help meet the

at nearby hospitals. The House provides a com-

needs of community members affected by the

fortable, supportive, temporary residence near the

COVID-19 pandemic. This gift provides additional

medical facility where family members can sleep,

support following the $500,000 the foundation

eat, relax and find support from other families in

awarded to Second Harvest in March.

similar situations. Since opening its doors in 1985,

Food banks across the state have been facing

the Ronald McDonald House of Knoxville has

increased demand since the onset of the pandemic,

provided a home for over 57,000 people. Families

as many Tennesseans turn to them for support.

have come from 41 states, 10 foreign countries, and

While many organizations have been able to sustain

virtually every medical facility that treats pediatric

operations throughout 2020, donations are leveling

patients. Learn more at KnoxRMHC.org.

off and the beginning of 2021 remains uncertain.

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CULINARY CREATIONS Chef David Ferguson

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COZY UP TO A HOMEMADE CHEF-LEVEL DINNER

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date night at home

VALENTINE'S DAY DESERVES A RICH AND HEARTY DISH

+ 2 cup button mushrooms, chopped

TENDED WITH LOVE AND CARE. This recipe may seem

+ 2 oz bacon

daunting, but fortunately most of the work is done in the oven.

+ 6 baby yukon potatoes

Developing the flavors gradually will help ensure you have a

+ 6 oz chives, divided (4 oz whole, 2 oz chopped fine)

robust dish with decadent texture. Trust me, it’ll be well worth it

+ 4 oz thyme, whole

in the end.

+ 4 cloves garlic, minced + 2 tbs olive oil

BRAISED BEEF SHORT RIBS, SWEET CARROT PUREE,

+ 4 tbs vegetable oil, divided

PAN ROASTED BABY POTATOES, BUTTON MUSHROOMS,

+ 4 tbs butter, divided

& SEARED ONIONS

+ 3 cups water

Prep Time: 40 min, Cook Time: 2 ½ hrs, Serves: 2

+ ¼ cup granulated sugar + salt and pepper to taste

INGREDIENTS:

+ flat leaf parsley for garnish

+ 1 lb bone in beef short ribs + 48 oz beef stock + 1 cup Amber ale

METHOD: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Place a large pan over high heat

+ 2 celery stalks, cut into ¼” slices

with 2 tbsp vegetable oil. While the pan is heating, season all

+ 7 medium carrots, peeled and divided (2 cut into ¼” slices, 5

sides of your short ribs liberally with salt and pepper. When the

cut into 1/2 “ rounds) + 1 ½ yellow onion, divided (1 rough chopped, ½ sliced into ¼” crescents)

pan has come up to temperature, begin searing the short ribs for 1 minute on each side. When all sides have been seared, remove the short ribs from the pan and set aside.

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“ T h is recipe may seem

dau nt i ng, but for t u nately most of the work is done i n the oven. Developi ng

the f lavors g radua l ly w i l l help ensu re you have a

robust d ish w ith decadent tex t u re. T r ust me, it ’ l l be wel l wor th it i n the end.”

Chef David Ferguson

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Remove any used oil from the pan. Reduce to medium

Coat the chopped mushrooms evenly with 2 tbsp of

heat and add in remaining 2 tbs of vegetable oil, garlic

olive oil before spacing them apart on a lined sheet tray.

and rough chopped onions, stirring occasionally. Cook for

Roast in the oven for 15-20 mins to remove any excess

2 minutes before adding in the celery and carrots. Allow

moisture and then set aside.

carrots and celery to begin to brown before pouring in

Combine the remaining carrots with the water, sugar,

the beer. Begin stirring with a wooden spoon or rubber

and a liberal pinch of salt in a small sauce pot. Set the

spatula to remove any brown bits from the bottom of the

pot over medium heat and bring up to a simmer, allowing

pan. Continue stirring to allow the beer to reduce and

the carrots to cook until very tender. Strain off the carrots,

evaporate before returning the short ribs to the pan. Once

reserving a ¼ cup of the liquid. Add carrots to a blender

in the pan, pour in enough stock to almost cover them

and begin blending on low, gradually easing towards

leaving only the very top of the short rib exposed. Add in

high to avoid splatter. Carefully pour in reserved liquid in

the whole chives, thyme, and bacon and bring to a boil.

stages, pureeing the carrots until very smooth. Season

Put on the lid and place in the oven for two hours.

with salt (to taste) and set aside.

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Place a medium sauté pan over medium-high heat and add in 1

melt 1 tbsp of butter. Place the potatoes cut-side down into the

tbsp butter. Place the reserved onions into the pan and season lightly

pan.Cook for two minutes on each side until golden brown,

with salt. Allow the onions to cook until they soften and start to brown,

remove from pan, and set aside.

tossing occasionally. Reserve the onions once they have finished.

Return pan to high heat, along with 1 tbsp of butter. Add the

Place potatoes in a medium sauce pot and cover with water.

mushrooms and allow to brown, tossing occasionally. Once

Season the water heavily with salt and set the potatoes over

browned, incorporate the chopped chives and potatoes and sea-

medium heat to simmer until fork tender. Remove the potatoes

son with salt and pepper to taste.

from the water and slice in half.

Once the braising liquid has reduced to the point where it

Once the short ribs are fork tender, remove from the pan and

will coat a spoon, remove the short ribs. Add remaining 1 tbsp

strain off the solids in the liquid. Return the liquid and short ribs back

of butter and stir to emulsify. Serve the short ribs, potatoes,

to the pan and reduce over medium high heat.

and mushroom over the carrot puree spooning the reduced

Finish the mushrooms and potatoes while the braising liquid is reducing. Place a medium sized pan over medium heat and

sauce on top. Finish by garnishing with whole parsley and the browned onions.

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LESSONS CONTINUE AMID A PANDEMIC

FRANK GRAFFEO HAS SPENT MORE THAN 20 YEARS INVESTING IN KNOXVILLE’S MUSIC COMMUNITY, FIRST AS THE GENERAL DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR OF THE KNOXVILLE OPERA AND CREATOR OF THE ROSSINI FESTIVAL AND NOW AS THE JOY OF MUSIC SCHOOL’S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. He is passionate and all-in, so when the pandemic closed the school to in-person instruction last March, he and his staff were quick to find a workable solution.

Without missing a beat, they took to Zoom and devised a plan for connecting students with their volunteer teachers. While The Joy of Music School isn’t brimming with what Frank calls the “joyous din of music” every weekday afternoon, he knows their mission and goals are still being reached.

“There are some things you miss - we can’t see posture and breathing [over Zoom] - but we try not to focus on that because we can’t do anything about it,” he explains. “But this makes the case for why we exist. It goes back to the beginning. It goes back to the depressing cut of music budgets.”

HISTORY OF THE JOY OF MUSIC SCHOOL In 1998, after Knoxville businessman and philanthropist James Dick visited a music school in Nashville, he and other community leaders and music educators founded The Joy of Music School as a partnership with the Boys & Girls Club. The goal was to bring a quality

Frank Graffeo, executive director of The Joy of Music School

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music education to students who didn’t have access to it through the school system. Within two years, the school became a 501(c)3 nonprofit, and by the start of 2001, the school’s first executive director, Marisa Galick, was hired to manage its business operations.

By October 2001, the program expanded to include non-Boys & Girls Club members as long as they qualified as being from low-income families. Within another year, The Joy of Music School had grown so fast that its modest 900 square-foot space at the Moses Center no longer suited their needs. They moved to a building at their current location on Euclid Avenue, though it was clear renovations were necessary to bring the space up to code.

In March 2005, the school broke ground on those necessary upgrades, which included an elevator, a second stairwell, and installing handicap accessible restrooms. The additions were completed that fall, and by December, Frank Graffeo was appointed as the school’s executive director.

Over the years, the school has enjoyed seeing many students graduate from the program with music scholarships, job opportunities, and the kind of confidence that can only be built through enthusiasm and diligence.

“It’s always fun to talk about kids who’ve popped up and made a name for themselves. There are a lot of success stories, students going to college - the first in their family - on music scholarships, kids recognizing their worth, something that was already in them,” says Frank.

“One of the most amazing things is when kids graduate and go to college and come back here to volunteer as teachers. That just blows me away. I didn’t even envision that when I started. Or we have students come back in with their own kids! Blows my mind. I love all of that.”

STUDENTS AND TEACHERS Parents apply under the same scale as free or reduced lunch, so the music program remains needsbased. Students don’t need to audition or have any previous music experience, according to Frank. They just have to want to be there.

Then, students are provided instruments and matched with volunteer teachers, a process that is more elaborate than one might assume. In addition to the instrument, they look at personality and schedule.

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Knox with volunteer teacher Amos Turner

Some teachers are perfect for beginners, while others are best suited to teaching advanced students.

Since the teaching model changed last year due to the pandemic, the school was able to accept both

Students as young as six and seven start in group

students and teachers from out of state. It’s a leap for-

lessons, and then by eight or nine years old move into

ward that seems to be working well so far and lends

solo lessons. The most common musical instruments

itself well to expanding the school’s reach.

of instruction are the violin and piano, but students are welcome to try whatever instrument inspires them.

Whether the teacher is local or not, the student-teacher relationship is an important one.

“I always say that when the parent wins the argu-

“We want teachers with experience teaching, if pos-

ment, the kid takes the violin or piano. When the stu-

sible, and experience in music, obviously, but we want

dents win, they get the electric guitar or drums,” he

people who have the time and are willing to make a

says, laughing. “As long as there’s a teacher we can

commitment. You’re going to have a student or two

find and a student who wants to play it, we’ll do it. If

who are relying on you for weekly lessons,” says Frank.

someone wants to learn the sitar, we’ll find a teacher.”

“We focus on mentoring too. We belong to the Knox

Every year, students present a spring recital, typi-

Mentoring Initiative. We pay attention to the benefit

cally hosted at the Scottish Rite Temple on 16th Street,

that an adult outside of family, church, and neighbor-

to showcase what they’ve been working on throughout

hood can have. Just listening. We aren’t pretending that

the year. As most musical performances were moved

these teachers are counselors, but we’ve learned that

online in 2020, so was the spring recital. It’s expected

we derive a lot of benefit from that.”

this year’s recital will also be online.

Families are re-evaluated each year to assess their needs-based status, which is important considering there is a constant revolving waitlist for students every year.

THE FUTURE OF THE JOY OF MUSIC SCHOOL While the school receives some support from the city and county, it relies mostly on rent from tenants in their

“On a normal year, the waitlist can be a hundred kids.

building, annual grants, and the generosity of donors. As

I would love to have students matched immediately

long as music budgets continue to drop, or disappear

and have the teachers on the waiting list,” says Frank.

entirely, The Joy of Music School will keep its doors open.

“We could blanket-ask for volunteers, but we target UT

“We’re filling the gap of what’s been cut,” says

faculty and students who are musical, and we target

Frank. “Not everyone can afford private lessons. We

the vicinity of the school.”

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Autumn plays the cello while her sister, Kristen, plays the piano.

Schools to put us out of business by offering every kind of music, but declining budgets keep us in business.”

In addition to monetary donations, the school also accepts donated quality instruments in favorable shape.

For the foreseeable future, The Joy of Music

H OW YO U CAN HELP 1. Donate gently used, quality instruments.

Minor repairs can be made, if necessary.

School will continue its online format, and

2. Commit to monthly, quarterly, or annual

even after it’s been determined that students

monetary donations. Or, opt for a Tennessee

and teachers can return to in-person lessons,

Specialty License Plate. The school receives

they’ll keep the online option for those who

state funding through the Tennessee Arts

need it both in and out of Knoxville.

Commission revenue.

“I’m guided by our founder’s vision, the

3. Volunteer to be a music teacher. The school

late, great James Dick. He’s the savior of the

asks that teachers provide a minimum of one

Tennessee Theatre. He started WIVK radio.

lesson per week for one academic school year.

He used his wealth to better our community,”

All applicants will be interviewed, undergo a

says Frank. “One of his tenets of the school

background check, and attend a mandatory ori-

was to serve as a national model. We’re at

entation session before their first class.

the very beginning of it, but we’re building the model properly.”

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TIMES PAST

SHOEBOX COLLECTIONS 1. Postcard of John Sevier Monument

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FONDLY REMEMBER THIS FORMER KNOXVILLE INSTITUTION’S OFFERINGS. This month we also highlight our local beer heritage, the continuing spirit of the Kern Bakery, and one thing that happens only once– the making of a state, right here in Knoxville.

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THE KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT CONTINUES SERIES OF LITTLE-KNOWN PHOTOGRAPHS SUBMITTED BY LOCALS

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KNOXVILLE ARTICLE JACK NEELY AND PAUL JAMES | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

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POSTCARD OF JOHN SEVIER MONUMENT

This uncommon vintage postcard depicts the monument

2. Knoxville Brewing Co.

still on the Knox County Courthouse lawn, of our state’s first governor, John Sevier. It’s been 225 years since the winter that 55 men from all parts of the Southwestern Territory, from here to the Mississippi River, came together in Knoxville for three weeks of argument and compromise. When they finished, they had created a

41-page document: the first state constitution. Originally drafted on territorial governor William Blount’s desk (you can see the desk at Blount Mansion, the city’s only official U.S. Historic Landmark), it was signed by all 55 here on Feb. 6, 1796, and ratified in Philadelphia the following June 1--now considered Statehood Day. Often overlooked is the fact that Knoxville (founded in 1791) was the capital of Tennessee for most of the period from 1796 through 1819, when that status naturally gravitated to the state’s midsection. Shared by Alec Reidl.

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KNOXVILLE BREWING CO. A festive image of the old New Knoxville Brewing Co., probably in the late 1890s, shows their pride in their Bock beer. The biracial staff appears to be preparing for a parade. This elaborate plant, which was connected to a deep artesian well and turned out 12,000 barrels of beer annually, was located along Second Creek between downtown and Mechanicsville. After a post-prohibition effort to revive the brewery in 1937 came to naught, it was torn down for I-40 construction. The approximate site has most recently been a homeless camp.

Shared by Bernie Wallace.

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HISTORIC KNOXVILLE The Knoxville History Project, a local educational nonprofit with a mission to research, preserve and promote the history and culture of Knoxville, has a growing list of publications on Knoxville history and culture. Signature titles including Historic Knoxville: The Curious Visitor’s Guide; Historic Bearden, a colorful and in-depth look at the popular West Knoxville community, plus seven story collections, including Knoxville Holidays & Festivals, Knoxville 3. Historic Knoxville

Blues, A Knoxville Christmas, The Legend of the Gold Bricks, and Knoxville Lives Volumes I and II.

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SMOKY MOUNTAIN MARKET When it opened just south of the Henley Bridge in 1936, the Smoky Mountain Market on Chapman Highway may have appeared to be just another convenience store. But one of the store’s most popular items, the hot dog (added almost as an afterthought) was so popular it contributed to the store’s longevity.

According to a store press release celebrating its 50th anniversary in 1986, those original five-cent hot

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back of the store and, and over the years, drew locals by the score. A few celebrities came in for them too, including Conway Twitty, Senator Howard Baker, the Harlem Globetrotters--and one time, some claim, the entire Brady Bunch. Porter Waggoner, a vegetarian, also came in on occasion when he stayed at a motel across the road.

Howard J. Johnson owned it for many years before local businessman Virgil Rushing bought

4. Ray’s and Fay’s Friends

the store in 1974 and created a chain of 31 Smoky Mountain Markets. But the Chapman Highway Store remained the “Old Number One” until it closed in 2002. Shared by Todd Rushing.

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PETER KERN COMPANY In the late 1800s, German immigrant Peter Kern was a prominent baker and confectioner, popularized by his emporium, featuring an ice-cream parlor, on the southwest corner of Market Square where Tupelo Honey and the Oliver Hotel are today. Kern served as Knoxville’s mayor for one year, 1890-1891. The Kern Bakery on Chapman Highway, built in 1930 and in use for decades, is now being rehabbed in an extravagant fashion to combine residences with retail.

This 1913 illustrated letterhead proclaiming Kern’s to be the “The Great ‘Package Candy House’ of the South” was shared by Cindy and Mark Proteau.

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FOR THOSE WHO ENJOY LIVE THEATRE, LIKE MYSELF, THE

What is your garden going to look like one hundred years from

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Alexander Hamilton. For the past six years the cultural sensation has wowed audiences across the globe and has generated over one

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whole life, he didn’t think about what that actually meant until the end of his life, like many of us. The show then comes to an end with a heart wrenching final number about how Alexander Hamilton’s wife, Eliza, carried on his story even after he died at a young age. With teary eyes, the curtain falls with the reminder that the seeds we plant are going to grow and produce fruit in a garden we never get to see.

Most people interpret this musical masterpiece as a reminder that we have no control over who tells our story when we are gone. While I agree that there is some truth to that, it is imperative that we take it one step further.

While you may not have any control over which of the seeds in your garden sprout into flowers, you do have control over which seeds you plant.

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Bailey Foster, Maker of “Real Good Kitchen” KNOXVILLE NATIVE BUILDS A FOOD INCUBATOR TO HELP KNOXVILLE ENTREPRENEURIAL FOOD BUSINESSES SUCCEED

1. WHAT IS RGK? Real Good Kitchen is Knoxville’s first full-service shared commercial kitchen and food business incubator. We have a 2500 sq ft facility that opened in January on Magnolia Avenue in East Knoxville. You can think of Real Good Kitchen as a co-working space for food businesses. We provide the space and resources food entrepreneurs need to take the next steps with their businesses.

It’s been nearly 4 years since I started working on building Real Good Kitchen, and I’m thrilled that it’s finally coming to life. We know Knoxville loves local food, and we think there’s so much room for more of it.

It takes a community to build a kitchen, and we are so grateful for the support we’ve received.

2. HOW DOES A FOOD INCUBATOR WORK? IN THAT, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE COMMON ROADBLOCKS THAT NEW FOOD BUSINESSES RUN INTO THAT FOOD INCUBATOR HELPS TOO OFFSET? Real Good Kitchen makes food business ownership more accessible by lowering risks and barriers--we invest in the equipment and infrastructure that food businesses need to operate legally and optimize production. We also offer mentorship, support and a network of resources focused on the unique challenges of food business ownership.

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Bailey Foster, Founder of Real Good Kitchen.

3. WHAT IS YOUR VISION FOR RGK? At Real Good Kitchen, we’re building a diverse community of food professionals who share space

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