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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month but all year, Knoxville's Family Justice Center helps and counsels the abused through the tragic consequences of that violence. Their website is: http://fjcknoxville.com/ and the 24-hour hotline number is: 865.521.6336.
Amy Dilworth is the Center's Executive Director. She and Ann, a survivor of domestic violence, spoke with Chrissy Keuper. Ann is now happily married with two stepchildren... but before that, she was in a violent and abusive marriage. Ann is not her real name... 
Rheta Grimsley Johnson is one of the best-known modern Southern writers. She writes a syndicated newspaper column and is the author of the new book "Poor Man's Provence". For several years, Johnson and her late husband divided their time between their home in Mississippi and a smal house in Cajun Louisiana. Johnson tells WUOT's Ann Lloyd she borrowed the title for her new book from another author's successful travel journals about France...
From 1937 to 1981, the S&W Cafeteria was an important part of life on Knoxville's Gay Street. Built as one of the area's first cafeteria-style restaurants, the S&W offered downtown patrons inexpensive food, dinner music, a friendly and familiar wait staff and an innovative art-deco design. After laying empty and abandoned for years, the restaurant will re-open this week as the S&W Grand. To mark this occasion, WUOT-FM and the Knoxville News Sentinel asked some former S&W employees and customers to recount their memories of this cultural landmark. This story was co-produced by WUOT's Matt Shafer Powell and Carly Harrington of the Knoxville News Sentinel and features Avon Rollins Sr., Anna Turner "Blondie" Johnson, David Watson, Dorothy Burchfield "Mother" Blackburn, John Craig and Von Garrett...
Scott McNutt has found an interesting way to keep our elected officials accountable-- his wit. McNutt writes an on-line column for Knoxnews.com called "Snark Bites". It's a sharp, funny, unapologetic stab at politics and government. Imagine the satirical news website the Onion, but with a local spin. And no surprise here-- among McNutt's favorite targets are the Knox County Commission, County Mayor Mike Ragsdale and Law Director Bill Lockett. On this segment of Dialogue, host Matt Shafer Powell speaks with Scott McNutt about Snark Bites' origins, how people react to it and the risks you take when you try to use humor to expose some very real concerns...
The unemployment rate in Tennessee is 10.8 percent--- twice as high as a year ago. Among the state's metropolitan areas, Knoxville is weathering the recession well. Business analysts say Knox County's diverse economic base means its booms are modest--- as are its busts. Matt Shafer Powell reports for member station WUOT on how business planners have learned lessons from the city's industrial past...
Until World War Two, conscientious objectors drafted for military service in the US generally had two options: serving in the military as non-combatants or dodging the draft, often meaning prison time. In 1940, the Quakers, the Church of the Brethren, and the Mennonites lobbied President Franklin D. Roosevelt to institute another option for those opposed to the violence of war who wanted to serve their country. The Selective Service Draft that was passed that year included a provision for Civilian Public Service Camps. Chrissy Keuper speaks with Jeffrey Kovac, who teaches at the University of Tennessee. His new book focuses on one such camp, CPS Camp #21 at Cascade Locks, Oregon, and is called Refusing War, Affirming Peace...
