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International Women’s Day is in March - and here in Chattanooga, a celebration for the arts will honor women of all nationalities and support a cause - set for Friday evening, March 8th at Chattanooga Theatre Centre.

If you visit Stove Works in South Chattanooga, you’ll find contemporary art nestled where manual labor once assembled cast iron stoves. “Hand to Mouth” is a multimedia exploration of labor and physical movement that opens there on Friday,

“Good Women” is Haile Hill’s debut collection of short stories, delving into the lives of twelve Black women here in Appalachia. Hill - a native of East Tennessee who now lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina - visits Chattanooga later this month.

Beyond Chattanooga, the Lula Lake Land Trust covers 8,000 acres around Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Daniel Roberts is the Trust’s community engagement coordinator.

From Bogotá to 8 80 Cities: Gil Penalosa at the next CIVIQ. Halle Hill - author of “Good Women” - on her way to SoLit. Covering the ground a step at a time at Lula Lake Land Trust. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Chattanooga is the only city here in Tennessee to earn a specific Federal grant this year designed to pay off in better safety for pedestrians. Two million dollars for Chattanooga will flow from the SMART grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

A few weekends ago, the Chattanooga Airport unveiled a 28-million-dollar terminal renovation and expansion. Among those on hand: Jim Hall, chairman of the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport Authority Board of Commissioners.

The centerpiece of the latest exhibition at the Hunter Museum of American Art here in Chattanooga is a work by the first Black artist to paint a presidential portrait. “VIVID: A Fresh Take” opens at the Hunter on Thursday evening, starting at 6 PM.

For this Open Book, my guest is New York Times, Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author of historical women’s fiction, Stephanie Dray.

For this Open Book which is now on two successive Saturday evenings every month, my guest is Rose McLarney whose most recent collection of poems, Colorfast, has just been published.