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It’s a piece of Chattanooga’s industrial past - where the yarn that was spun from cotton spanned generations of families. Once upon a time in the last century, the Standard Coosa Thatcher Mill - a textile factory - employed thousands at 1800 South Watkins St. in the Oak Grove neighborhood. Now, there are signs of artistic life at the Mill, thanks to The Pop-up Project.

The pirates are coming! - the pirates are coming! - to East Tennessee. This weekend and next, the Tennessee Pirate Fest will be held in Harriman - near Kingston, west of Knoxville.

Richard Winham shares a session by Honeymoon - a band from Etowah, TN - recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.

Anna Carll makes collages with fine art papers. Claire Vassort paints on silk. Together, the artists collaborate as 2CREATE. With help from Michael Brandt, they are now building a colorful 3D mobile - titled “Give Way to the Wind,” symbolizing the mulberry tree - to be installed this summer at the Chattanooga Convention Center.

Lourans Mikhail, a multidisciplinary artist in Chattanooga. Scott Martin on Chattanooga’s Parks and Outdoors Plan. Rewind From The Woodshop in St. Elmo: Alexa Rose, Part II. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Lourans Mikhail is a muralist, sculptor, painter and graphic designer here in Chattanooga. A Marine veteran, his work has been shown in galleries in Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago and Chattanooga - and he’s painted large-scale murals from San Diego, Anaheim and New Orleans to Chattanooga, Nashville and Memphis. I spoke with him after he completed a month-long artist residency at Chateau Orqueveaux in France.

From 1982 until 2005, August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays about the Black experience in Pittsburgh during the 20th Century - with one play set in each decade. The series is known as the Century Cycle - and on Friday, the second play in the Cycle, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” premieres at Chattanooga Theatre Centre.

Let’s stay with the theatre, but change the venue - and talk about the upcoming season of Broadway at the Memorial Auditorium here in Chattanooga. Nick Wilkinson is CEO of the Tivoli Theatre Foundation.

Richard Winham shares the second part of a session by Alexa Rose, live in The Woodshop in Chattanooga’s St. Elmo neighborhood. (First aired in November 2021)

The stage is set for “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” at CTC. Nick Wilkinson on Broadway at the Memorial Auditorium. Talking Writing: The Scenic City Super Show at Barking Legs. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”