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Step inside a Victorian home in downtown Chattanooga - and the art is all around you: glass, furniture, antiques. The Houston Museum of Decorative Arts in the Bluff View Art District showcases the collection acquired over decades in the last century by one woman: Anna Safley Houston.

Once upon a time, segregation forced some of Chattanooga’s greatest talents to play on other local baseball teams. One of them: Charles White, who pitched professionally for the all-Black Chattanooga Stars in the 1950’s. Here's William Newlin of Chattamatters.

For the past three years, we have brought you stories from the students of Rising Rock - a multimedia storytelling class here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Next month, we’ll share the upcoming showcase of Rising Rock stories from this semester on an entire episode of “Scenic Roots.”

Twenty years ago, Federal legislation created the Moccasin Bend National Archeological District, adding the Bend to Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. Now, National Park Partners has launched a "Save the Bend" campaign - after the Tennessee State Building Commission authorized construction of a new mental health institute on the Bend.

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.