Your Tuesday at a glance:
- Weather: Overcast with a high of 72 and an 80% chance of storms.
- What’s interesting: Have you heard of Julius Rosenwald? During the early 1900s, he helped educate more than 660,000 African Americans and helped fund thousands of schools, including ones in the Chattanooga area.
- What we’re eating: Mixing chocolate and onions seems absurd, right? But some of our readers have been set on proving that the two can live together in the same dish.
- What’s cool: Two scientists were awarded Nobel Prizes for their discoveries about how our bodies perceive temperature and touch.
Good morning, Chattanooga!
From the scenery and jobs to internet infrastructure, college and probably a million other reasons, different things draw Chattanooga transplants like myself to the area.
For millennials Chris and Cristi Moody, Chattanooga honestly wasn’t on their radar at first.
After living in New York and Washington, D.C., and moving between jobs, the Moodys found themselves living a nomadic lifestyle out of a converted van.
And, eventually, the road led them to Chattanooga to visit family, and one interaction still sticks in Chris’s mind today.
“The first thing anyone in Chattanooga ever said to me was a man I held a door for who said, ‘I appreciate you,'” he said. “I had never heard that before. Everyone we met was the nicest person we’d ever met.”
Now for some recent stories:
LET’S EAT: According to our food writer Anne Braly, Bryson City, North Carolina, the Great Smoky Mountains’ “Outdoor Adventure Capital,” wasn’t always known for its food. But recently its focus has shifted, so here are her top spots to visit if you find yourself in the area.
LET’S LEARN: Chattanooga-based online learning platform Learning Blade is expanding to three more states.
LET’S CREATE: The week after next is Chattanooga Startup Week. Here’s how the week will mix tradition and new ideas this year.
– Tierra Hayes, thayes@timesfreepress.com
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