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On Friday evening, the lighted boat parade returns to the Tennessee River in downtown Chattanooga. It begins at 7 PM - after Chattanooga Green and Ross’ Landing host Reindeer on the Riverfront starting at 4 PM - before fireworks at 8 PM.

Wreaths Across Chattanooga prepares year round to lay wreaths each December on the graves of fallen veterans at Chattanooga National Cemetery. Jeff Eversole - who chairs the Hamilton County Commission - is with Wreaths Across Chattanooga.

This weekend, Barking Legs Theater here in Chattanooga will be buzzing with a kaleidoscope of creative activities indoors and outdoors. On Friday and Saturday, the theater on Dodds Avenue hosts the first Chattanooga Fringe Festival. Holly Morse-Ellington is the festival’s program manager.

Across the Tri-State, the high stakes of disappearing farmland. Filling up to fight food insecurity at this year’s Empty Bowls. In Cleveland, the Whispering Giants Intertribal Native Festival. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

By the year 2040, the tri-state region of Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia is projected to lose 150,000 acres of farmland, according to the American Farmland Trust. David Cook of Food As A Verb and author Brooks Lamb are talking about it this week here in Chattanooga.

Empty Bowls is a community-led effort to curb food insecurity around the world. Here in the Chattanooga area, Be The Change and Scenic City Clay Arts presented the event last year - and on Wednesday, they’re back for more, at The Signal starting at 5:30 PM.

Where does fashion meet theater this week here in Chattanooga? For the Performing Arts League, they meet “On The Town" - a new event for the League - this Friday, starting at 11 AM at The Walden Club.

To tell the story of the Ocoee region here in Southeast Tennessee, you have to tell the Indigenous story. On Saturday, December 7th, the Museum and Cultural Center at 5ive Points in Cleveland will host something new: the Whispering Giants Intertribal Native Festival.

(Aired Weds 11/13/24) This summer, Monique Kuykendoll Quarterman joined The Enterprise Center as its new President and CEO - succeeding Deb Socia. Monique has served as executive director of entrepreneurship and innovation at the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development.

The Enterprise Center’s Monique Kuykendoll Quarterman. Dr. Anany Prosper of the Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti. “Records of Removal” at the Chattanooga Public Library. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”