Scenic Roots

Just in time for the holiday season, “Mary Poppins” comes to the Chattanooga Theatre Centre. The musical about the practically perfect nanny - based on the children’s books by P.L. Travers and the Disney film - opens on Friday and runs through Sunday, December 22nd. Joanna Lewis plays Mary Poppins, and Taylor Williams plays Bert. They - and director Scott Dunlap - tell us more....

If you listen to “Morning Edition,” you may have heard Gena Thomas. She wrote a book - called, “Separated By The Border: A Birth Mother, A Foster Mother, And A Migrant Child’s 3,000-Mile Journey.” It is the story of a girl whom Gena calls “Julia” - who left Honduras two years ago with her stepfather and her mother. The smugglers taking them to the United States kidnapped Julia’s mother and forced her into prostitution. When Julia and her stepfather made it to the U.S.-Mexico border, they were

Dr. Thomas Lyons thrives on applying academic research to the real world of business. This fall, he joined this campus - the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - to teach graduate-level courses, and help lead UTC’s new Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The Center, already online, plans to open a physical space in the Mapp Building in downtown Chattanooga’s Innovation District. Thomas Lyons stopped by “Scenic Roots”...

In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, there is a lookout built more than eighty years ago at the summit of a mountain that sits on the state line between Tennessee and North Carolina. Here on this campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Gina Stafford is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Communications and Marketing. She dropped by “Scenic Roots” to talk about the Mount Cammerer Fire Tower...

Tori Parrish calls herself a “woman of many trades.” She is an oil painter - also, a classical harpist - and enjoys woodworking. Did I also mention she teaches art and the harp? You can see Tori’s work this month at Chattanooga WorkSpace, where she is one of its newest members - and at The Colonnade Center in Ringgold, Georgia now until January 4th. Tori told me what brought her to Chattanooga...

Townsend Atelier here in Chattanooga will hold its Holiday Art Show & Sale. Multiple works by eight artists in this area - including paintings, drawings and prints - will be on sale Friday and Saturday. Peggy Townsend and her husband Stan started the Atelier a dozen years ago. She tells us more - along with Mia Bergeron, one of the artists whose work will be featured and who also curated the collection on sale...

Wyatt Massey is a reporter at The Chattanooga Times Free Press who covers faith and religion. We talked about his beat - and a few of his recent stories - when he stopped by our studio...

Wyatt Massey, faith and religion reporter at The Chattanooga Times Free Press. Peggy Townsend & Mia Bergeron of Chattanooga's Townsend Atelier. Artist Tori Parrish - & UTC's Gina Stafford on the Mount Cammerer Fire Tower. 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.

Today on Tennessee Valley StoryCorps, Lena Katherine Maycann talks to her granddaughter, Katie Furlough, about working at the farmer’s market when she was young and the lessons she learned from the family she worked for, and lived with. 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 Play and never miss an

Author Dean W. Arnold on his Ethiopia book - and Chattanooga history. Cypris Birkel & Suzanne Sabourin on Healing Touch Restorative Yoga. Alex Paul Loza on Peruvian heritage art - and Steep South's Elaine Elliott. These voices - and more - on this encore edition of "Scenic Roots." Ray Bassett is the host of "Scenic Roots" - produced by Haley Solomon, Karley Dodson and Will Davis.