Scenic Roots

Richard Winham presents Teni Rane, a singer / songwriter in Chattanooga, on this week's Scenic Roots - recorded at the Mountain Arts Community Center on Signal Mountain.

(The Chattery) Suzanne Dulin teaches small business owners how to grow sustainable businesses, so they can control how they spend their time.    Next Wednesday starting at 5:30 PM, she’s teaching an online course for The Chattery - titled:  “The Low Financial Risk Business Startup Strategy.”

The Lula Lake Land Trust helps to conserve nearly 12,000 acres on Lookout Mountain. Cody Roney is executive director of the Trust - and Matthew Hubbard is director of development there.

The Center for Mindful Living here in Chattanooga is shifting its presence online, after closing its physical space due to the pandemic. Stephanie Wilkins is the Center’s executive director.   

The Wine Over Water Food + Wine Festival is usually held on the Walnut Street Bridge here in Chattanooga. But this year, due to COVID-19, the organizers have been crafting an alternative - which will run from Monday, September 28th to Sunday, October 4th. All proceeds will benefit Cornerstones, dedicated to historic preservation in Chattanooga. Ann Gray and Amanda Carmichael tell us more.

As part of reopening Hamilton County Schools during the pandemic, there is now what is known as the SAFE! Pledge. The deadline for families to sign is tomorrow. Janelle Drake is outreach facilitator for Hamilton County Schools.

An effort to bridge the digital divide for students here in Hamilton County is taking shape during life under COVID-19. Hamilton County Schools recently joined with EPB and other community partners - such as Tech Goes Home and The Enterprise Center - to offer HCS EdConnect. The service will provide at-home internet access to thousands of students in the system, at no cost to their families. Scotti...

 Bridging the digital divide in Hamilton County Schools.  Chattanooga's Wine Over Water moves beyond the water. The Center for Mindful Living - and Lula Lake Land Trust. These voices - and more - on this edition of "Scenic Roots."  

Richard Winham speaks with poet Cynthia Robinson Young - author of "Migration" - in the first of a two-part conversation on this week's "Talking Writing."

For nearly forty years, the Bessie Smith Cultural Center here in Chattanooga has been dedicated to the city’s African-American history, from the Civil War to the present. It is the only history museum in Chattanooga - and due to COVID-19, its doors have been closed to the visiting public since March. The Bessie has expanded its presence online with videos including the “Bessie’s Front Porch” serie...

Albert Woodard on a boost for The Bessie Smith Cultural Center. Richard Winham's Talking Writing:  Cynthia Robinson Young. These voices - and more - on this edition of "Scenic Roots."

(Peppino D'Agostino) Richard Winham presents the second part of a performance by Peppino D’Agostino, a finger-style guitar player, from a show streamed online on Barking Legs Theater’s Facebook page.

(Tennessee Tribute) On this day one-hundred years ago, Tennessee became the final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - making women's right to vote the law of the land.    One historian in the Chattanooga area who knows that story well is Linda Moss Mines.   

Linda Moss Mines on Tennessee & the 19th Amendment. Will Davis brings us this week's Tennessee Valley StoryCorps. Barking Legs Theater:  Guitarist Peppino D'Agostino / Part II. These voices - and more - on this edition of "Scenic Roots."  

(StoryCorps / WUTC) Today on Tennessee Valley StoryCorps, Laniesha Gatewood and Nikki Lewis talk about the influence black culture has within their community. Tennessee Valley StoryCorps brings you conversations from people who went to the StoryCorps recording booth in Chattanooga's Miller Park in the spring of 2019. You can subscribe to the Tennessee Valley StoryCorps podcast on iTunes or Google...

Richard Winham presents part one of a performance by Flagship Romance - the harmonic alternative folk duo of Shawn Fisher and Jordyn Jackson - livestreamed from Truth or Consequences, New Mexico for the Mountain Spirit Acoustic Series at the Isis Music Hall in Asheville, North Carolina.

In 1906, Ed Johnson was dragged from his jail cell and lynched on the Walnut Street Bridge here in Chattanooga. A memorial at the bridge is expected to be complete next year. Japorsche Pettaway wrote about the case as a student of our campus, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her article - “The Intentional Omission” - appeared online a few months ago in Catalpa, published by UTC’s Depart...

(The Bethlehem Center) Urban agriculture has taken a step forward here in Chattanooga. The Bethlehem Center recently opened The Alton Park CommUNITY Urban Farm. It contains 700 square feet of garden beds for residents to buy locally grown produce at affordable prices. Gloria Dubose is director of community outreach with The Bethlehem Center - and Joel Tippens is with the City Farms Grower Coalitio...

Gloria Dubose & Joel Tippens on an urban farm and market. Japorche Pettaway on Ed Johnson and "intentional omission." Mountain Spirit Acoustic Series:  Flagship Romance. These voices - and more - on this edition of "Scenic Roots."

Richard Winham presents music and conversation from Two Shoe Crew, two DJ producers in Chattanooga.

(UTC)   “The new normal.” What is it? What was it? What will it be? What should it be? Here on our campus - The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - Chandra Ward is an assistant professor of sociology and Ethan Mills is an associate professor of philosophy. (UTC) (UTC)

When the pandemic sparked interest in home gardens, canning what is grown in those gardens would soon have to follow. June Puett is an agent with the UT Extension Office here in Chattanooga and Hamilton County. She’s teaching an online class about Home Canning for The Chattery on Saturday, starting at 10 AM. (UT Extension)

(Unum) Unum here in Chattanooga recently established a Social Justice Fund to - quote - “create stronger, more equitable communities.” The insurance firm made a $500,000 corporate gift, now being supplemented with employee and company matches, to set up the fund - which will support projects to fight racism, discrimination and bias. Rick McKenney is Unum’s CEO - and Liz Ahmed is its executive vice...

Rick McKenney & Liz Ahmed on Unum's Social Justice Fund. UTC's Chandra Ward & Ethan Mills on the new "new normal." June Puett of UT Extension on the rise of home canning. These voices - and more - on this edition of "Scenic Roots."

Each week online, the Bessie Smith Cultural Center here in Chattanooga features community members reading children’s books - to spur dialogue on race relations. The digital series is called “Bessie’s Front Porch” - and yesterday, Ron Harris of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee read:  "One Vote, Two Vote, I Vote, You Vote." Watch the entire readings from “Bessie’s Front Porch” on the Facebook pag...