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Take a look at the Instagram for Be The Change Youth Initiative here in Chattanooga - and you’ll read this description: “Youth Should Be SEEN, HEARD, & LOVED. Our Mission: Reduce Youth Suicides through Mental Health Advocacy and Building a Stronger Community.”

As this Thanksgiving approaches, the world is again in turmoil. This weekend here in Chattanooga, a multifaith Thanksgiving service seeks to light a candle despite the darkness. Sunday’s service begins at 4 PM at Pilgrim Congregational Church - 400 Glenwood Drive.

What better way to celebrate than incubate? This month, Barking Legs Theater here in Chattanooga is hosting nearly two dozen events to mark its 30th anniversary. Among them: new works by artists from an incubator residency project. On Monday night, Moll King - and Donnie Marsh and Ashley Saturday - will perform their new works.

Food insecurity deepens in the Chattanooga area and beyond. In January, a tribute to MLK’s legacy in downtown Chattanooga. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

In this corner of the Southeast, the crisis of food insecurity has gotten worse. The Chattanooga Area Food Bank, which serves 20 counties in Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia, estimates 40,000 more residents - including 12,000 more children - have struggled with greater food insecurity in the past year.

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have turned 95 next year. Here in Chattanooga, one tribute to the legacy and work of the civil rights leader and his associates - featuring music and spoken word reflections - will be held on the evening of Thursday, January 25th at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center.

At ClearStory Arts in Chattanooga, a community for artists. As Songbirds readies to move, a concert from Richard Lloyd. A new home for Ice Age fossils from Lookout Mountain Cave. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

ClearStory Arts on Holtzclaw Avenue in Chattanooga is home to affordable studios for local artists, a gallery and a community workspace. On Saturday, it hosts Cold Turkey, its Fall Art Market, from 11 AM to 4 PM.

Richard Lloyd is a founding member of the band Television, a fixture of the New York City rock scene of the 1970’s. The week after Thanksgiving, he returns to the Songbirds Guitar and Pop Culture Museum at 35 Station Street in downtown Chattanooga - Friday, December 1st at 7 PM.

Decades ago, fossils believed to be from the Ice Age were discovered in Lookout Mountain Cave. Ruby Falls recently donated the private collection to the Gray Fossil Site and Museum, part of East Tennessee State University.