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Southern Market Celebrates 25 Years

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Local Merchants • Artists • Home Decor • Gifts • Fashion • Cuisine

Celebrating 25Years Susan Worthington and her mother, Frances Sexton, founded The Southern Market more than two decades ago with the vision of creating an upscale interiors market that showcased local vendors featuring strictly stylish merchandise. With more than 200 current vendors, Worthington added that The Southern Market offers a variety of products that range from home decor, gifts, boutique fashions, and art. We are always looking to enhance our market with exceptional new merchants and artists. “We pioneered a new breed of marketplace in an era of antique and craft only malls” said Worthington. “Neither Knoxville - nor any Southern city we visited for that matter - had anything like us at the time.” We traveled more than 20,000 miles throughout the Southeast hand selecting our first merchants over several years. We built our building entirely for this concept as well. Having built this Knoxville staple and entrepreneurial legacy literally from the ground up and on the pages of Veranda magazine before they ever opened, these ladies were destined for success. Decades later, The Southern Market, located at 5400 Homberg Drive, is still going strong winning Best Gift Shop and Best Interior Design by Knoxvillians year after year, and will be celebrating its 25th year in business this November, an event that will coincide with its annual Holiday Open House, Nov. 4-7, 2021. Worthington says the market’s lengthy success is a result of its focus on recruiting quality, small businesses from the local community, servicing those businesses’ needs, and garnering mutually successfully relationships that last for many years. We aim to minimize turnover and maximize our merchants’ successes. “Southern Market has been promoting ‘shop local’ for 25 years,” she said. “Shop Local is not new to us. We have loved and embraced shopping local and small businesses since 1996. We are small business. We are shopping. We are local. Come shop local at Southern Market.”

Susan Worthington President Southern Market 5400 Homberg Dr. Knoxville, TN 37919 (865) 588-0274

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hope you’ll dive into our wonderful city this month to support small businesses and community members. On the cover this month is Susan Worthington with her daughter, Callie, who are celebrating the 25th anniversary of Southern Market Shops. If you’ve not visited

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Amy Campbell-Rochelson, Melissa Ballard, CFP®, Jack Neely, Paul James

Southern Market before, now is the time. Tucked away in the heart of Bearden, their 8500-square-foot building is home to dozens (upon dozens) of merchants selling housewares, home decor, jewelry, clothing, and more. One of the things that stood out to us in her interview was when Susan said, “Customers vote with their dollars,” which speaks not only to the longevity of love West Knoxville has for Southern Market but also to the quality of items merchants have to offer. If you’re getting in the holiday shopping spirit, then add Southern Market Shops to your list of places to peruse. If you’re in the market to buy or sell a luxury home in the area, then look no further than the Threlkelds for your real estate team. This month we talked to Robert about what it takes to buy and sell luxury homes in Knoxville, as well as what sets them apart from the rest. They never stop working for their clients, which is why their Keller Williams Signature team is currently ranked No. 1 in the luxury market.

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Preserving Our Roots: My Journey to Save Seeds and Stories, about the cushaw, a

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generously-sized member of the squash family rumored to make an even better pie

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than the pumpkin.

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Our monthly partnership with the Knoxville History Project is one of our most treasured gems, and this month’s collection of old photos doesn’t disappoint. Thanks to all of you who keep finding and sending in photos and postcards from days gone by. We love to celebrate our city’s rich history. As always, we have our experts on hand to offer financial and legal advice. This

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FEATURES 10 A Q&A with John Coykendall Celebrating the Cushaw and the Importance of Seed-Saving

14 Shoebox Collections The Knoxville History Project Continues its Series on Little Known Photographs Submitted by Locals

18 Southern Market Celebrates 25 Years Susan Worthington Reflects on Where It All Began

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name C&K Boutique, the current shop is located at 5607 Kingston Pike. While shopping online is easy and convenient, patrons are encouraged to

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a q&a with john coykendall CELEBRATING THE CUSHAW AND THE IMPORTANCE OF SEED-SAVING

JOHN COYKENDALL IS A TENNESSEE TREASURE. A native of Knoxville, John is an artist, seed saver, and farmer. For more than four decades, John has discovered, cultivated, and preserved varieties of heirloom seed and is passionate about saving seeds and stories. In his book, Preserving Our Roots: My Journey to Save Seeds and Stories, co-written with Christian Melton, John highlights staple crops, agricultural practices, and favorite recipes from the families and friends who have hosted him. Accompanied by a rich selection of drawings, journal pages, and photographs―along with more than forty recipes―Preserving Our Roots chronicles Coykendall’s passion for recording foods and narratives that capture the rhythms of daily life on farms, in kitchens, and across generations. JOHN, WHY DO YOU SAVE HEIRLOOM SEED? Well, it’s so important. We went through a long period of time where we forgot about the old seeds and the old varieties. Modern agriculture came in, and your small farms began to disappear. People were leaving the farms, moving to cities, so a lot of those things fell by the wayside. When the old ones started to die out, there wasn’t anyone left to carry that on. Luckily, however, there was a number that did, especially in your Appalachian region. The Appalachian region is more diverse as far as seed saving, seeds available than anywhere in the country, by far. So old varieties have been preserved and handed down to us.

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WHAT IS A CUSHAW? The cushaw is a member of the squash family, and

ARE ALL CUSHAW AN HEIRLOOM VARIETY, OR HAVE THEY HYBRIDIZED CUSHAW SEED?

they can weigh, oh, 20-25 pounds, some of the really

Not to my knowledge, they all date back to the

bigger ones. But they’re curved in shape, the real ideal

original. Or, as the old folks say, they’re branch kin

ones—sort of like a crooked neck, a big curve. And the

to it anyway.

bulb end is the part that contains the seed, and the neck is solid, and that has all the good flesh. I remem-

HOW IS CUSHAW USED IN COOKING?

ber at the fair, Mr. Alvin Rutledge, who used to judge

They are wonderful for cooking. The best way I

at the Tennessee Valley Fair, always looked for that

have discovered over the years to avoid all of that

nice curve that you got in the cushaw. It would come

painstaking peeling which can be dangerous, with

around almost to the bulb end of it. Now they are light

a sharp knife. What I do is cut that in half, scoop

to white in color with green striping. There’s also the

out all the seed and pulp. Put that on a large baking

orange cushaw with orange striping on it, but the most

pan in the oven and fill that with as much water as

predominant type is the green stripe.

you can. And bake that at about 200 degrees. You don’t want to brown it; you just want to soften that

FROM WHERE DID CUSHAW ORIGINATE?

flesh up. Then, when that starts to collapse, you can

Cushaws came to America in the 1700s from the

scoop out all that meat and material out of it, so

Caribbean. I’m not sure which island or islands, but

you don’t have to go through all of that painstaking

they quickly became a favorite in the southland, grown

peeling. They’re good for so many uses. They’re

all over farms and then the mid-Atlantic states and,

good, just stewed down with some brown sugar

I think, later in other states as well. It can be grown

or honey. Of course, for pies, they used to be very

almost anywhere. I sent seeds of it to an Indian

prevalent. Some say that the cushaw makes a bet-

Reservation in Oglala, South Dakota, one year when

ter pie than a pumpkin.

they were looking for seeds out there to grow on that reservation. I sent flat tan pumpkins, the cushaw, and

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TIMES PAST

SHOEBOX

COLLECTIONS

THE KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT CONTINUES ITS SERIES ON LITTLEKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHS SUBMITTED BY LOCALS

People's Tabernacle

WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS MONTHLY SAMPLER FROM KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT’S “KNOXVILLE SHOEBOX” COLLECTION. We are always on the lookout for old family and personal pictures, especially when there’s something distinctly Knoxvillian about them. Our goal is to help fill in the many gaps in the photographic record of our city’s past. If you have interesting old photographs of your own, from any era, we’d love to hear from you. You show us the photograph, we copy it and give the original back to you. We preserve and archive the image and make it available for researchers of the future, always crediting your contribution. Sharing is easy—and we’ll do our best to make your images immortal! Please contact Paul James at the Knoxville History Project at (865) 337-7723 or Paul@KnoxHistoryProject.org. Learn more at KnoxvilleHistoryProject.org/ Knoxville-Shoebox/

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KNOXVILLE ARTICLE JACK NEELY AND PAUL JAMES

THE PEOPLE’S TABERNACLE

NORTH KNOXVILLE POST OFFICE

The People’s Tabernacle, located on East Cumberland

In the 19th century, mail delivery in Knoxville was

Avenue near S. Central Street, was founded and built

limited; formal mail carriers only started making daily

in the 1890s by Rev. Robert Bateman, an Englishman

rounds of the city in the 1880s. Rural mail delivery

and Progressive Era reformer who perished on the

began after the turn of the century. This circa 1910 pho-

Titanic in 1912. The church remained here for almost a

tograph of Emory Park’s “Station A” shows a healthy

century more, ministering to the poorest of Knoxville.

staff of suburban mail carriers, supervised by James

Displaced by Urban Renewal in the 1950s, the church

A. Ashe (shown front and center, behind the little boy,

building was replaced by a simpler concrete structure

his son, John), who a quarter-century earlier had been

nearby on Central that remains today, recently serving

one of Knoxville’s very first mail carriers and rose to the

as a live-drama venue. (Circa 1938 photograph was

rank of assistant postmaster. (Shared by Beth Wolf)

shared by Walter Parry) CONTINUED >

North Knox Post Office and James Joseph Ashe

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AME CHURCH COOK BOOK This circa 1919 Cook Book by the Sewing Circle of the African-American Logan Temple AME Zion Church offers a rare taste of Knoxville cuisine from a century ago. Logan Temple was then downtown on Commerce Street, almost adjacent to the Central Street “Bowery.” The Gleaner Printing Co., which published it, was a Black-owned business just around the corner on Vine Street. The Logan Temple congregation still thrives on Selma Avenue in East Knoxville. Early Knoxville-based cookbooks are rare finds, but part of our cultural history. (Shared by Sherry Wallace Barry)

NATIONAL CONSERVATION EXPOSITION This photograph offers a rare vantage, through the pines, of the old main exhibition hall at Chilhowee Park, a centerpiece at three national expositions, notably the National Conservation Exposition (“N.C.E.”) of 1913, when it welcomed visitors like William Jennings Bryan, Helen Keller, and Booker T. Washington. Later it was central to the first Tennessee Valley Fairs, and by the 1930s, it was notable for major jazz concerts. The building burned down in a spectacular fire in 1938 and replaced by the current Jacob Building. (Shared by Carol Mayo Jenkins)

A FAIR SHAKE Author and tour guide Laura Still delves into the history of the women’s suffrage movement in Knoxville, its leaders, including Lizzie Crozier French, and other fearless female progressives who achieved lasting change. Also included are profiles of Knoxville’s legislators who assured the amendment’s passage, a short history of the Knoxville Female Academy, and a tour of downtown suffrage statues and sites. A Fair Shake is published by the Knoxville History Project and available at KnoxvilleHistoryProject.org

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"I know from being on t heir side t h at merch ants and artists want a pl ace t o st art, so t his gives t hem an opportunity t o get going"

WHEN SUSAN WORTHINGTON REMEM

entire corner space with dresses, tops, and

BERS

accessories on display. For shoppers, there

SOUTHERN MARKET SHOPS, SHE NEEDS

are seemingly endless nooks and crannies of

TO DAB HER EYES. So many good memo-

gems to discover, from home decor and hol-

ries, such hard work, and all of it was done

iday items to handcrafted jewelry and small-

alongside her parents.

batch food items (for humans and puppers

THE

EARLIEST

YEARS

“We started it together,” she says, and then she pauses. Frances Sexton, Susan’s mother,

alike!). For merchants, Susan says there is something for every budget.

passed away in 2017. “I’m just super sentimental.”

“In middle school, I used to make hair bows

It’s a story she loves to tell, evident by her smile

and sell them at Henderson Drug Store. I’d

despite the emerging tears. Her parents bought

get off the bus everyday to see what I’d sold,”

the parking lot and started construction on the

she says. “I know from being on their side that

8500-square-foot space in 1993. By November

merchants and artists want a place to start, so

1996, Southern Market Shops — a small business

this gives them an opportunity to get going.”

concept they’d researched and designed — was open for merchants and customers.

And it’s not just a space. Partnering with Susan means merchants get the benefit of her

“We traveled 20,000 miles to get our first ten-

retail expertise, her advice and support, help

ants, from Charleston to Birmingham to Atlanta to

from the team, and what she calls a “white

Louisville, looking for people who were interested

glove” experience. This type of cooperation

in coming to Knoxville,” says Susan. “We were a

has an incubation effect with the end goal

mini-Chamber of Commerce.”

being success for everyone.

Originally, Southern Market showcased

“Some have a magic bullet of their own, but

a mishmash of antique and modern finds,

there are some merchants who come in with no

but over time, contemporary retail won over

experience. I wish everyone could come in and

vintage. Though Susan says they track trends

be magically successful, but there’s a learning

and keep a keen eye for what sells and what

curve. A lot of small businesses don’t make it,

doesn’t, ultimately “customers vote with their

and there’s a huge percentage of retail who fail,

dollars” and continue to influence what mer-

but this provides them with a protective envi-

chants carry in their individual spaces.

ronment, lower risk, and a team effort rather

At its core, Southern Market Shops pro-

than a go-it-alone approach,” says Susan.

vides a brick-and-mortar space for artists,

“They can learn lessons here. We’re a busi-

creators, and shop owners with varying levels

ness-minded group.”

and types of inventory, from the Etsy jeweller

The past 25 years have been good to Susan

who rents a strip of wall for $25 per month

and her family. It doesn’t seem that long ago

to the clothing merchant who provides an

CONTINUED >

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SOUTHERN MARKET (CONTINUED)

that her daughter Callie, now 23, was sitting in her leopard stroller being entertained by customers while Susan pulled products from the shelf. It’s just one of the many reasons why Susan is sentimental about Southern Market Shops. You can’t create a business with your parents, raise your children in the building, watch dozens of people succeed, and not get sentimental. “We didn’t just take something and renovate it. We were all-in from the get-go,” says Susan. “It’s been fun to watch the community develop around us. It’s always been an art community district with a small entrepreneurial vision.” Though there aren’t plans to expand the building, Susan says work is underway expanding their online presence to a full, multi-merchant marketplace. She and her team are passionate about the collective success of their merchants, so expanding online services is the best next step. “A rising tide floats all boats, so people work together here. Everyone wants everyone to do well,” says Susan. “That’s our ultimate goal.”

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