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Stop by Oak Ridge this weekend - and you’ll find it at a summer festival. Or visit a few farms here in the Chattanooga area that grow it, year after year. Lavender is a plant that can be a challenge to cultivate here in the Southeast - but that might also explain why the herb is so popular.

For four decades, Alice Randall has devoted her creative energy into writing songs for some of the biggest names in country music. The first Black woman to write a number one country song, she's the next guest on "The A List with Alison Lebovitz" - Thursday at 8:30 PM on our public media partner WTCI PBS.

This Friday and Saturday is Negro League Appreciation Weekend here in Chattanooga. The annual celebration - hosted by the Chattanooga Lookouts and the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, in partnership with Food City - honors African-American players of the Negro Leagues during segregated baseball.

On this "Open Book," Richard Winham talks with Tasha Coryell - author of "Love Letters to a Serial Killer" - and shares a story from Jason Tinney.

From the studio in the downtown Chattanooga Public Library, we have a session featuring a set of songs as cooling and refreshing as a summer breeze from Luke Simmons and the Lovestruck.

This month’s Chattanooga Film Festival will pay tribute to Rod Serling, creator of TV’s “The Twilight Zone” - when it returns with its hybrid schedule of in-person and virtual screenings starting Saturday June 21st.

In East Chattanooga, a gathering on Juneteenth will feature workshops and performances in the Afro-Brazilian arts: Capoeira and Maculelê. The free cultural event from the nonprofit Art to Empower is Wednesday at RISE Chattanooga.

Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom: the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans after the end of the Civil War. In downtown Chattanooga, one of the celebrations for this year’s holiday on Wednesday will be at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center.

A DIY startup behind the wheel: Ji Hoon Heo of TESBROS. Twenty-five years of impact at the Land Trust for Tennessee. Filmmaker Dagan Beckett on “Beautiful Faces” revisited. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

(Aired 7/09/24) TESBROS is a company here in Chattanooga that makes accessories that Tesla owners can customize for their vehicles - such as door labels; a kit that can change the color of door handles, trims and logos; seat covers; console wraps - and more.