Ray Bassett

Richard Winham shares the first part of a virtual performance by guitarist Alan Shikoh at Barking Legs Theater in Chattanooga.

The Jewish festival of Chanukah begins next week.  Tomorrow night starting at 6 PM, Rabbi Craig Lewis of Mizpah Congregation here in Chattanooga will teach a virtual class about it through The Chattery - titled “History Happy Hour: The History and Mystery of Chanukah.”

Red wolves are apex predators, critical to ecological balance.  Without them, the rest of us - humans, other animals and plants - cannot succeed.  Red wolves are endangered:  only seven known in the wild - and 250 under human care.

Here in Chattanooga, Landrace Bioscience is a CBD startup that manufactures high-quality hemp extracts.

This fall, it received the Spirit of Innovation Award from the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce.

• James Dawson of Chattanooga CBD startup Landrace Bioscience.
• Reflection Riding’s Mark McKnight & Tish Gailmard on red wolves.
• Rabbi Craig Lewis on Hanukkah - and Barking Legs Theater.
• These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Richard Winham shares the second part of a virtual performance by roots band Lazybirds for the Mountain Spirit Acoustic Series at the Isis Music Hall in Asheville, North Carolina.

Each year, our fallen veterans are honored with wreaths at their grave markers in cemeteries around the country on National Wreaths Across America Day.

How do you take the story of a Christmas movie classic - released right after World War II - and tell it on the stage?

As a live radio play - the way it might have been performed back in the 1940’s, during the early years of radio.

• CTC’s Chuck Tuttle on “It’s a Wonderful Life:  A Live Radio Play.”
• Mickey McCamish on this year’s Wreaths Across Chattanooga.
• Mountain Spirit Acoustic Series:  Lazybirds / Part II.
• These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Richard Winham shares a conversation with Lori Nelson Spielman - author of “The Life List” and “Sweet Forgiveness” - talking about her third and latest novel:  “The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany.”