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The “Save the Bend” campaign at National Park Partners. At UTC, here come the student storytellers of Rising Rock. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

It’s hot Records have been broken. It’s the story of the Summer. We’re all wilting, but most of us can escape into air-conditioned offices and homes. For the unsheltered, there is little if any relief. The Salvation Army and The CHATT Foundation offer shelter during the day, but at night the only option is The Mission with 75 beds for men and women.In part 2 of On the Outside in Chattanooga, we are talking about surviving the solar onslaught on the street.

Living on the outside in Chattanooga is always a challenge. On 11th Street, those daily challenges are further exacerbated by very potent drugs. For many people living on 11th Street, it’s hard to resist a drug that promises to ease their daily pain. Fentanyl—an analgesic 50 times as potent as heroin and 100 times as potent as morphine, according to the DEA—is everywhere on 11th street.

On the Outside in Chattanooga - an ongoing conversation with the men, women and children living on the street in Chattanooga and the people who are daily doing all they can to help find them a home - has expanded to an hour. In this first hour-long show, we talked to some of the people who daily criss-cross the city and the county, offering solace and support to the homeless.

For the past 18 months, Mal O’Connell and I have been talking to people living on the street in Chattanooga along with the army of professionals working to help them. For most of those 18 months, we were very much like the blind men and the elephant trying to grasp the enormity of the problem.But over time we began to understand that it’s not one problem or one person, but a huge shifting population of people each with their own unique perspective. Realizing that helped us to begin telling the story one topic at a time.

Aaron “Coach Cherokee” Ellison was born and raised here in Chattanooga. Among his talents: dance, the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira and teaching those disciplines. On Saturday, December 23rd, he brings his original play - “My Last Christmas on Da Plantation” - to Barking Legs Theater here in Chattanooga.

On this special edition of "Scenic Roots," listen to the student storytellers of Rising Rock from the Fall 2023 semester here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

The last chapter of the life of former President and the Civil War's commanding Union general Ulysses S. Grant is the starting point for “The General and Julia,” a new historical fiction novel by Jon Clinch - published by Simon & Schuster.

Throughout the year, we bring you conversations in partnership with the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga. As we near the end of this year, the Foundation is supporting other nonprofits in our area through its Caring and Inclusive Communities grants.

Caring and inclusive communities in the Chattanooga area. A few stories from students on our campus here at UTC. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”