Scenic Roots

This year’s lineup for The Moon River Music Festival from Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors features Sheryl Crow, Nickel Creek and Billy Strings.

Maybe you saw the photo online in The Chattanooga Times Free Press of teens from the 1950’s sipping Coca-Cola, o r maybe the photo from 1960 of Loveman’s department store in downtown Chattanooga.

Sam Hall of ChattanoogaHistory.Com on "Remember When, Chattanooga?" Drew Holcomb talks Moon River with Richard Winham and Haley Solomon. Will Davis brings us this week's Tennessee Valley StoryCorps. These voices - and more - on this edition of "Scenic Roots." Ray Bassett is the host of "Scenic Roots" - produced by Haley Solomon, Karley Dodson and Will Davis.

MIT's Jonathan Gruber on "Jump-Start America" - and coming to Chattanooga. Keith Hardison on Chattanooga's new National Medal of Honor Center. Ruth Kerri of East Lake Montessori - and the creators of "Y.B. Normal?" These voices - and more - on this edition of "Scenic Roots." Ray Bassett is the host of "Scenic Roots" - produced by Haley Solomon, Karley Dodson and Will Davis.

Back Alley Productions in LaFayette, Georgia is paying a Christmas visit to the C.S. Lewis world of Narnia. “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” opens tomorrow night at the Mars Theatre for two weekends of performances.

At the end of this month, the Chattanooga Audubon Society hosts its first “Torchlight Gala” - on the water.

Joel Tippens is known for urban gardening here in Chattanooga. Now, the community activist is working on a new endeavor: the City Farms Grower Coalition.

Jonathan Gruber makes a case for investing in innovation in dozens of cities in Middle America - beyond the marquee cluster of zip codes. The economist at MIT is the author of “Jump-Start America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth And The American Dream.”

A week from tomorrow, the new Charles H. Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center opens its doors here in Chattanooga.

Keith Hardison on Chattanooga's new National Medal of Honor Center. MIT's Jonathan Gruber on "Jump-Start America" - and coming to Chattanooga. Joel Tippens on urban farming - and, Chattanooga Audubon's Torchlight Gala. These voices - and more - on this edition of "Scenic Roots." Ray Bassett is the host of "Scenic Roots" - produced by Haley Solomon, Karley Dodson and Will Davis.