Scenic Roots

(The Alan Wyatt Trio) Richard Winham presents a sampling of jazz from Barking Legs Theater:  The Alan Wyatt Trio - with Alan Wyatt, Shawn Perkinson and David Schwab.

(Steam Logistics) When the coronavirus pandemic hit the Chattanooga area, Steam Logistics had just started a new policy allowing its employees to work from home. I spoke recently with Brittany Paone, the human resources manager at the international logistics firm…

Teachers - both experienced and new, in this city and beyond - have been signing up for the Chattanooga AP Summer Institute. This year, the Institute’s workshops are taking place online - and they will address broader challenges beyond the AP curriculum. John Freeze is director of the Center for Professional Education on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Allen Pratt is execut...

As the Chattanooga area sees more new cases of COVID-19 - and Hamilton County health officials say those cases are coming from all zip codes through community spread - we wanted to check in with one population that has been hit hard already. Lily Sanchez is with La Paz Chattanooga…

Lily Sanchez of La Paz Chattanooga on COVID-19’s impact. Going virtual at UTC’s Chattanooga AP Summer Institute. Brittany Paone of Steam Logistics on workplaces from home. These voices - and more - on this edition of "Scenic Roots."

(Jim Pankey) Richard Winham shares a recent sampling from Jim Pankey on "QuaranTunes at Noon" - the livestream concert series presented by WoodSongs Dalton at Noon on Fridays to benefit The DEO Clinic...

(The Chattery) If you want to teach online through videos, Suzanne Dulin knows how to help you. She's on a course on making your own videos at thechattery.org tomorrow starting at 5:30 PM.

Georgia’s primary elections take place tomorrow - delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. More than a million people have voted already, thanks to a record surge of voting by mail. Chris Acuff is a professor in political science on our campus - The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga...

UTC Poli Sci Professor Chris Acuff on Georgia's primary. Suzanne Dulin on how to make your own videos for online. A sampling of Jim Pankey from "QuaranTunes at Noon." These voices - and more - on this edition of "Scenic Roots."

On this week’s “Scenic Roots:  Live In The Library,” Richard Winham presents a virtual performance beyond Chattanooga:  Sturgill Simpson at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.

The coronavirus pandemic has shined a light on mental health. But a recent report by Unum - the insurer based here in Chattanooga - says nearly a half of employees in this country are not aware of mental health resources that their employers provide.   Dr. Laurie Mitchell is Unum’s assistant vice president for global well-being and health...

(The Chattery) On Sunday starting at 4 PM, Gardenchick’s Karen Creel will teach an online class for The Chattery:  Create Your Own Butterfly Garden. I asked Karen how she got into gardening...

(Upstate Mississippi) April Corbett will be teaching an online class for The Chattery tuis weekend:  Memory Keeping in Quarantine, on Saturday starting at 3 PM…

Dalton's Creative Arts Guild has reopened - with in person classes and lessons, keeping safety in mind. The Guild is still offering all of its online content that it created when it closed its doors due to the coronavirus pandemic. Amanda Brown is the Guild’s executive director…

(Dalton Daily Citizen-News) A podcast by Ellis Stephens made finalist in NPR’s recent Student Podcast Challenge. This past school year, he was one of the students in Amanda Triplett’s journalism program at Dalton Middle School, where all of them created podcasts - even after school had to close due to COVID-19...

(Hamilton County Tennessee Genealogy Society) Here in Tennessee, the State Senate has followed the House’s lead to lift a requirement on Governor Bill Lee to proclaim Nathan Bedford Forrest Day on July 13th. But, the day that honors the slave trader, Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader remains despite an effort to abolish it - while a push to remove the bust of Forrest from the state...

On Tuesday night, the Chattanooga City Council held a marathon session online. Members heard from community activists who have been protesting in the streets against police brutality and calling for systemic change after the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. Two prominent activists here are Cameron “C-Grimey” Williams and Marie Mott, also a candidate for City Council next y...

Marie Mott & Cameron “C-Grimey” Williams on Chattanooga’s protests. UTC Poli Sci Professor Michelle Deardorff on Confederate monuments. Student podcasting in Dalton - and April Corbett on memory keeping. These voices - and more - on this edition of "Scenic Roots."

(UTC) Richard Winham speaks with Dr. Darrell Walsh, professor of sociology at UTC, on racial and economic inequality in America in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd - and the protests and unrest across the country.

This morning, live on WUTC, Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke joined us for a half-hour conversation. We talked about last night's City Council meeting, the protests here in Chattanooga against police brutality and the calls for systemic change, the City's budget shortfall due to the economic impact of COVID-19 as hospitalizations of new cases here in Hamilton County hit a new high - and more. Going fo...

Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke on policing, protests and COVID-19. UTC Professor Darrell Walsh on America's racial and economic crossroads. These voices - and more - on this edition of "Scenic Roots."

(StoryCorps / WUTC) Today on Tennessee Valley StoryCorps, Moses Freeman and Walter Williams. 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 Podcasts and never miss an episode. This series is produced and ed...

On this week's "Scenic Roots:  Live In The Library," our own Richard Winham shares a performance from The Briars - Jerris Schmidt & Robert Lovett - recorded last year in the downtown Chattanooga Public Library.

(Public Art Chattanooga) We have talked about Glass House Collective and Mark Making. Both groups are making a difference in the Chattanooga area during this pandemic - and Erika Roberts is a poet who is part of both.   Erika also wrote and performed the spoken word piece seen last month as the introduction to Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke’s State of the City Address. And in the next hour, she’s re...

(Mark Making) “Love Notes to Front Liners” are thank you notes by artists in the Chattanooga area, delivered to health care workers at local hospitals. Francis McDonald is founder and executive director of Mark Making, the arts group behind the project…