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This year’s Scopes Festival is Friday and Saturday in Dayton. The annual gathering commemorates the July 1925 trial of John Scopes, a high school teacher accused of violating a Tennessee law that barred the teaching of evolution in public schools.

What do these four places have in common: Audubon Acres, Maclellan Island, Audubon Mountain and Mackey Branch Wetland? The Chattanooga Audubon Society protects all four. On Friday, September 22nd, the Society will host its annual Torchlight Gala at the Hunter Museum of American Art.

In a musical mood for the world of Dr. Seuss? You’ll find it on Signal Mountain this month, as our own Richard Winham tells us.

On Wednesday afternoon, live here on WUTC, Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly joined us for our monthly conversation. Among the topics: the just unveiled Parks & Outdoors Plan, the city’s first in 25 years.

Richard Winham shares a session from Pinkfone, recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.

The Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors Plan - now before the City Council for consideration - is a road map of commitments, from the short term to the long term, that would reinvent Chattanooga as a “city in a park" over the next generation.

As this country has evolved over nearly 250 years, so has the painting of its vast and varied landscapes. That artistic journey is at the heart of “In Nature’s Studio: Two Centuries of American Landscape Painting” - now on display at the Hunter Museum of American Art here in Chattanooga.

“Through the Lens” of Horace Brazelton at Ruby Falls. Sweet sculptures for Collegedale’s new Little Debbie Park. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Horace Brazelton was the first African-American to open a professional photography studio here in Chattanooga. His specialty: portraits of middle-class Black families and professionals, taken during the era of Jim Crow segregation in the South.

Think of a playground - and you might expect swing sets, structures to climb, balance beams, hills, trees, shrubs, ponds. How about a Cosmic Brownie that you can climb? Or maybe a statue of Little Debbie? You’ll find it all in Collegedale - at Little Debbie Park, opening Friday at 9 AM.