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The Chattery's Classes Aim to Offer Something for Everyone in Chattanooga

Three years ago, Jennifer Holder and Shawanda Mason Moore had $100 and a dream of bringing people together across the city. They started The Chattery, a nonprofit that offers classes in practically any subject someone is willing to teach. (Recently, Sean Phipps gave a short course on how to smoke a pipe properly. Starting July 24, The Chattery will offer classes in "adulting." Other upcoming classes focus on subjects as diverse as astronomy, voting, and phonolgy.) 

The idea of The Chattery was slow to catch on at first, but three years later, it has grown way beyond anything the founders could have imagined.

Richard Winham joined WUTC five years after the station began broadcasting to the Chattanooga area and the Tennessee Valley.