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On Friday and Saturday, writers from around the region will gather here in Chattanooga for the SouthWord Literary Festival. Now in its 40th year, the festival celebrates writers from - and now living and working - here in the South.

On Saturday, the nonprofit ChaTech presents “STEM for Her - Chattanooga’s Summit for Women and Girls in Technology” - on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Vicki Farnsworth is UTC’s vice chancellor for information technology and chief information officer - and vice chair of ChaTech’s board.

As we celebrate the arts in our schools this month, we hear from a few voices from one community partnership for youth and the arts here in Chattanooga and Hamilton County.

A deeper dive into data for Hamilton County Government. Act II for The Velvet Chair Experience in Chattanooga. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Here in Chattanooga, the Velvet Chair Experience - a concert series fusing jazz and uptown soul - premiered last month at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, where the next concert will be held on Sunday, June 25th starting at 6 PM.

Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans after the Civil War. Eric Atkins is co-chairman of the Unity Group, which is hosting several events in Chattanooga leading up - and during - the holiday on Monday, June 19th.

How can - and should - music help drive what cities are and what they can be? Shain Shapiro is the author of the new book “This Must Be the Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better." Last month, he visited Chattanooga - and Yellow Racket Records - as part of his book tour.

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.

The question of “Is there life on other worlds?” is far from just a modern phenomenon. Just ask Dr. Andrew Davison. On Monday, he will give a talk - titled, “Astrobiology and Christian Belief” - on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Chattanooga is home to the longest, continuously staged Armed Forces Day Parade in this country. The grand marshal for Friday's parade - the 75th: retired U.S. Army Gen. B.B. Bell. I spoke with him - and Mickey McCamish of the Chattanooga Area Veterans Council.