Scenic Roots

(Walk Or Row / Facebook) Richard Winham shares part two of an outdoor performance by Americana group Walk Or Row, recorded at Barking Legs Theater in Chattanooga.  

(Chattanooga Hockey) If you think any kind of hockey fans might be few and far between here in the Southeast, check out Chattanooga Hockey. The roller hockey league - players use inline skates - has been around for decades.  But recently, it became a nonprofit and completed a new surface for its more than 100 players. Stephen Hilt is a board member of Chattanooga Hockey.  

During this pandemic, we can’t thank them enough:  doctors, nurses, all of the front-line medical workers looking after the rest of us. We all have something in common:  we are all human.   Here in Chattanooga, a multidisciplinary program - “The Art of Diagnosis and Balance:  Caring for Physician and Patient” - cultivates a sense of wellbeing for medical students. It’s a conversation that began be...

A wellbeing program for Chattanooga medical students. Stephen Hilt on suiting up for inline hockey in Chattanooga. Barking Legs Theater:  Walk Or Row / Part II Outdoors These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”  

(Terry Klein Music) Richard Winham shares part one of a virtual performance by Terry Klein - an Americana artist based in Austin, Texas - from the Mountain Spirit Acoustic Series for the Isis Music Hall in Asheville, North Carolina.

(Blackberry Smoke) Blackberry Smoke comes to Chattanooga’s AT&T Field this weekend. It’s the next concert produced by Friends of the Festival - presenters of Riverbend, the Chattanooga Unite series and the Here Come the Mummies concert also at AT&T Field. Mickey McCamish is executive director of Friends of the Festival.

“Crossing Borders” is the title of the third and final part of the Latin American Dialogues Speaker Series here at UTC. This time, the speaker will be Dr. Monica Bravo of the California College of the Arts, who will examine exchanges between modernists from the United States and Mexico in Mexico City during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Her virtual talk will begin on Wednesday at 4:30 PM on Zoom. Joining...

The power of three comes in many ways. Chattanooga Aerials will celebrate that as part of its three-year anniversary later this month. The performers of the aerial dance studio will present “Sacred:  Exploring the Power of Three,” on Saturday, November 21st and Sunday, November 22nd, at Inversions Circus Arts and Performance Center.   Jen Keehn is owner and director of Chattanooga Aerials - and ow...

Jen Keehn of Chattanooga Aerials on the power of three. UTC’s Latin American Dialogues on crossing borders in art. Mountain Spirit Acoustic Series:  Terry Klein / Part I These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”   

(Aoife O’Donovan) Richard Winham shares a virtual performance by Aoife O’Donovan - singer, songwriter and guitarist - recorded in front of a socially-distanced audience in August at the Black Birch Vineyard in Hatfield, Massachusetts.

(Chattanooga Theatre Centre) Think of a lobby of a high-rise apartment building in New York City - before the pandemic - as the stage for a play about human nature around the turn of the millennium. The latest production at Chattanooga Theatre Centre will take you there. “Lobby Hero” - the Broadway hit by Kenneth Lonergan - premieres tomorrow night at CTC - running Fridays to Sundays through Sunda...

(PlacemakingCHA.org) Placemaking is the work of creating and sustaining public places that build stronger communities. Last year, downtown Chattanooga hosted International Placemaking Week - and last month, the website PlacemakingCHA.org invited artists, business owners, civic leaders and residents across the tri-state area to share their stories in the virtual space.   PlacemakingCHA.org is a col...

(Penn State) Ron Rash is the next author in the Virtual South Bound Lecture Series. Next Thursday at 6 PM, he will talk online about his latest book "In the Valley," a collection of short stories and a novella based on his New York Times bestseller "Serena." Ron is a two-time winner of the O. Henry Prize who teaches at Western Carolina University in North Carolina - and he belongs to the Fellowshi...

Keelah Jackson-Harris and Jody Harris are artists here in Chattanooga. They are also husband-and-wife, now celebrating their one-year anniversary. And they are the creators of Keeody Gallery in downtown Chattanooga, a Black-owned business that houses art, hosts music and offers creative programs to the public. Or as Keelah and Jody will tell you, their gallery is “where art, love and soul reside.”

Keelah Jackson-Harris and Jody Harris of Keeody Gallery. Author Ron Rash and Lynda LeVan of Southern Lit Alliance. Scott Dunlap on “Lobby Hero” at Chattanooga Theatre Centre. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”  

(Penguin Press) On this week’s “Talking Writing,” Richard Winham shares a conversation with Clarissa Ward - CNN’s chief international correspondent - on her new memoir “On All Fronts.”  

(The Tivoli Theatre Foundation) Next year, the Tivoli Theatre here in Chattanooga turns 100 years old. This year has been a difficult one for the theatre - as it has for performing spaces across the country - due to the pandemic. Nick Wilkinson is executive director for the Tivoli Theatre Foundation.

(Tennessee Alumnus) Elections are about the future. But for a few minutes, we’re going to look beyond elections to the past and future of technology here in Chattanooga - specifically, big data. On our campus - the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - Dr. Mina Sartipi directs the Center for Urban Informatics and Progress. This weekend, she will be one of a dozen local speakers for a virtual TE...

Dr. Mina Sartipi of UTC’s CUIP on leveraging big data. Nick Wilkinson of Chattanooga’s Tivoli Theatre Foundation. Talking Writing:  Journalist Clarissa Ward on her memoir. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

(Walk Or Row / Facebook) If you enjoyed them at the library, listen to them in the garden!  Richard Winham shares part one of an outdoor performance by Americana group Walk Or Row, recorded at Barking Legs Theater in Chattanooga.  

(scgsah.org) Scott Gould is an author and a teacher born and raised in South Carolina. He chairs the creative writing department at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville. Three years ago, Scott made his literary debut with “Strangers to Temptation” - a collection of his stories. Now comes his debut novel: “Whereabouts.”

Author Scott Gould on his debut novel “Whereabouts.” Will Davis brings us this week’s Tennessee Valley StoryCorps. From the garden of Barking Legs Theater: Walk-Or-Row. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

(StoryCorps / WUTC) Today on Tennessee Valley StoryCorps, Will Andrews and Zack Ridder take One Small Step. One Small Step is an effort by StoryCorps to connect people so they can remember that people with whom they disagree are human beings. In doing this, we can begin to mend the fraying fabric of our nation — one conversation at a time.    Tennessee Valley StoryCorps brings you conversations fr...

(ellispaul.com) Richard Winham shares a virtual performance by Ellis Paul - a singer, songwriter and storyteller from Charlottesville, Virginia - for the Mountain Spirit Acoustic Series from the Isis Music Hall in Asheville, North Carolina.    

(The 6th Cavalry Museum) The 6th Cavalry Museum in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia preserves the military history of the Fighting Sixth Cavalry - featuring memorabilia and relics from the World War II era. When the pandemic hit, the museum had to close. But soon, it reopened - from Tuesday through Saturdays from 10 AM to 6 PM. And now, thanks to grant money from a few sources, the museum is moving forwar...