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Scott Martin of the City of Chattanooga’s Parks & Outdoors. A new strategic plan for Outdoor Chattanooga’s next chapter. Next at UTC’s Probasco Lecture: Economist Brandon Bolen. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

A city in a park - and a National Park City - are two phrases we heard last year about envisioning the future of the City of Chattanooga’s Parks and Outdoors. Building on that work continues in the new year. Scott Martin is administrator for the City of Chattanooga’s Parks and Outdoors.

For the past two decades, Outdoor Chattanooga has connected people in this city with the outdoor offerings around us. Now, it’s looking to the future with a new strategic plan. Gail Loveland Barille is director of Outdoor Chattanooga, part of the City of Chattanooga.

Credit cards, installment loans and cash advances are examples of what are known as “small-dollar credit products.” Brandon Bolen - an economist at Mississippi College - can tell you plenty about them. This week, he will give a talk on our campus - the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - for the Probasco Lecture Series.

Robert Winslow is a documentary filmmaker and journalist here in Chattanooga. For the past decade, his series of films - Southern Dialogues - has tackled major questions in this community and in our corner of the Southeast. In February and March, the series will be screened at Barking Legs Theater.

A Chattanooga story: the documentary “How to Sue the Klan.” Sunday Showcase for the Performing Arts League at UTC. For Charlie: remembering broadcast legend Charles Osgood. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Chattanooga 1980. Ku Klux Klansmen in a car fire shotgun blasts at four Black women waiting for a cab on Ninth St. - now Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. The four women - and another Black woman - are wounded. What happened next is told in a new documentary, "How to Sue the Klan."

This weekend, the Sunday Showcase returns to our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Young performers will display their talents to support the Performing Arts League - starting at 3 PM on Sunday in the Fine Arts Center here at UTC.

I am here because of a storyteller. Charles Osgood was the host of CBS News Sunday Morning for more than 22 years - but his first love in broadcasting was radio. I worked for Charlie as his final producer in New York for The Osgood File, his drive-time feature that aired nationwide for decades on CBS Radio.

“Seven Guitars” from August Wilson’s Century Cycle at CTC. BHM at the Bessie; “Origins” at Creative Arts Guild in Dalton. For ETC’s New Beginnings: “Short Attention Span Theatre.” These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”