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United Way of Greater Chattanooga celebrated its centennial of service last year. This year, it launched “Learn United,” a community-wide conversation series - partnering with Millions of Conversations, a national nonprofit.

What’s next for the Rossville Boulevard corridor? For the past few years, The BLVD Project has been working with residents and businesses to build a thriving community along the corridor, which stretches more than two miles south of downtown Chattanooga to the Tennessee-Georgia state line.

Lessons for localities from “The Economics of Placemaking.” A milestone for The Speech & Hearing Center in Chattanooga. Voices of an orchestral concert for the Empress of the Blues. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Next week here in Chattanooga, urban planner James F. Lima talks “The Economics of Placemaking” at The Camp House on Thursday, May 4th starting at 5:30 PM for the CIVIQ speaker series hosted by Chattanooga Design Studio. Here's the rest of our conversation with James.

For seventy years, The Speech & Hearing Center has helped thousands of people in the Chattanooga area who have a speech or hearing impairment. Taylor Bostwick is the Center’s president and CEO.

Bessie Smith, known as the “Empress of the Blues,” was born here in Chattanooga in the middle of this month in 1894. A concert earlier this year at Memorial Auditorium presented full orchestral arrangements of her music.

Carolyn Dorfman is a choreographer and the child of Holocaust survivors. Her work - "The Legacy Project" - honors her Jewish heritage. Next month, her contemporary company based in New York will come to Chattanooga for a community residency, including a performance here at UTC.

The dance of “The Legacy Project” with Carolyn Dorfman. Student storytellers on Immersion Gallery & Ridges to Rivers. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

In downtown Chattanooga, Immersion Gallery offers an ever-changing world of art - local and regional, accented in mystery and oddity. Mya Mckinney, a student intern for Scenic Roots this semester here at UTC, checked it out.

A few months ago, a new gallery opened at the Tennessee Aquarium here in Chattanooga: a multi-sensory journey through the streams of Southern Appalachia. Nardia Ingram, a student intern for Scenic Roots this semester here at UTC, paid a visit.