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The Knoxville area once known as the Bowery included hundreds of little shops: secondhand stores run by immigrants, some early African American barber shops and movie theaters, some of the city’s first Chinese laundries, some of the city’s last livery stables and blacksmiths, and drugstores that sold things that mainstream drugstores wouldn’t. Written by Jack Neely and read by Chrissy Keuper. She lived 34 more years and there’s much more to tell… John Mason Boyd was the youngest of the team that performed surgery on an African American woman named Matilda. But Matilda’s story doesn’t end there. It’s the name of “Our Beloved Physician,” memorialized with the stout marble arch at the Knox County Courthouse corner of Gay Street and Main Street. Knoxvillians may recognize the name, even if they don’t remember right away where they’ve seen it. Baker, with assistance from a few others including his suffering patient, hurried medical science along a bit by performing one of the first hysterectomy surgeries in the United States here on Gay Street. Of that historic team of four surgeons, the youngest is the one best remembered today. Written by Jack Neely and read by Richard Lee. It’s both a rarity and a landmark, and one very hot day, more than 90 years ago, it attracted a very large crowd. Today, the big relic is said to be one of America’s only remnants of the Weather Kiosk Era. So many people hung out around it, they earned a nickname – the Kiosk Leaners. Checking on the weather was a social event. People used to gather around it to see what the federal weatherman had observed, and what they could expect next. But in fact, it was originally installed in 1912, not long before Knoxville’s gigantic and elegantly appointed National Conservation Exposition of 1913. The elegant old weather kiosk on the corner of Clinch Avenue and Market Street looks like something built for an Exposition of the beaux-arts era. Written by Jack Neely and read by Don Thress. Join us in this podcast for a look at his fascinating story. Indeed, Cansler could be called a pioneer of the African American genealogical narrative. Cansler for writing down his family story, and having it published in his 1939 book Three Generations: The Story of a Colored Family in East Tennessee. That book, narrating the story of Cansler’s unusual family, preceded Alex Haley’s Roots by 37 years. Most love stories never get written down, at least not in places where historians can find them. And that name wouldn’t be here if not for a love story. The Cansler family had a big impact on Knoxville in the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th. And in East Knoxville, there’s the Cansler Family YMCA. Off Western is the old Laura Cansler School, a former “colored” elementary school, now home to Wesley House. In Mechanicsville, there’s a Cansler Street, and on University Avenue, a Cansler Building. There are some names in Knoxville history that seem rarer than others.

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Knox news sentinel publish on christmsd series#

Welcome to Knoxville Chronicles, a podcast series produced by the Knoxville History Project highlighting some of the most interesting of the city’s old stories that still have relevance today.