Season 7, Episode 36, 12/12/2020
“Candy, made in Tennessee & Southern Virginia”
Today we are setting the table with Candy with several guests.
Jessi Baker co-creator and owner of Ole Smoky Moonshine, Yee-Haw Brewing, 6th and Peabody Nashville, and cookbook Author shares a short story on how her Grandparents created “The Ole Smoky Candy Kitchen” in 1952 in Gatlinburg TN.
Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine presents a short story about Shirley McMurtrie of Union County and Shirley’s way of dry canning black walnuts along with Shirley’s black walnut candy recipe.
Fred Sauceman presents his “Pot Luck Radio” series with a feature on Helm’s Candy of Bristol Virginia.
Tammy Smith of Savannah, GA shares 2 old family stories by way of her Daddy involving a raccoon for dinner and a hog’s head story from her Marcum Grandpa, her Daddy, and her mother Lula Davenport Marcum. Her Mother Lula was cousin to 1992 National Heritage Fellow, Old-time fiddler and banjo player Clyde Davenport. Lula herself picked the banjo.
Links:
Jessi Baker: https://jessishines.com/
Ole Smoky Candy Kitchen: https://olesmokycandykitchen.com/
Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine: https://twitter.com/skilletsister?lang=en
Fred Sauceman: https://www.facebook.com/fred.sauceman
Tammy Smith: Upon request
Clyde Davenport: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Davenport
Joe & Jessi Baker interviewed by Amy at 6th and Peabody Nashville in 2019. Photo: Amy.
Image from the Ole Smokey Candy Kitchen website: https://olesmokycandykitchen.com/
Picture of Shirley McMurtrie processing black walnuts at her home in Union County. Photo provided by Knoxville News Sentinel.
Candy being pored at Helms Candy Company, Bristol Virginia. Photo: Larry Smith.
Helms Candy Company headquarters, Bristol Virginia. Photo: Larry Smith.
Grandpa John Marcum. Photo: Tammy Marcum Smith.
James Marcum and Lula Davenport Marcum (banjo picker and cousin to Clyde Davenport). Photo: Tammy Marcum Smith.
Tammy Smith & Amy buddies since the mid 1980s photographed in 2017. Photo: Tammy Marcum Smith.
Portrait of 1992 National Heritage Fellow Clyde Davenport by Tom Pich.