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Things to do in the Chattanooga area this week include disc-catching dogs, odes to cowpeas, fried green tomatoes

Photo by Neil Culbertson /  Grammy Award-winning banjoist Alison Brown will be playing with her quartet Sept. 8 at Songbirds. The co-founder of Compass Records (with her husband and bassist Garry West), she recently recorded a new song with Steve Martin and has been involved for many years with the International Bluegrass Music Association, which will be holding its World of Bluegrass event in Chattanooga in 2025-2027.
Photo by Neil Culbertson / Grammy Award-winning banjoist Alison Brown will be playing with her quartet Sept. 8 at Songbirds. The co-founder of Compass Records (with her husband and bassist Garry West), she recently recorded a new song with Steve Martin and has been involved for many years with the International Bluegrass Music Association, which will be holding its World of Bluegrass event in Chattanooga in 2025-2027.

Here’s what’s happening this week in the Chattanooga area.

Did you know?

Visiting such iconic destinations as the Grand Canyon or Disney World are staple bucket-list experiences for many families. A recent poll by HonestEco.org, a Florida-based eco-tours company, has found that the Chattanooga area is home to two of the lesser-known (at least nationally) alternative destinations. The list of 150 places, as determined in a survey of 3,000 families, included Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park at No. 11 and Little River Canyon National Preserve in North Alabama at No. 81. Other familiar sites on the list included North Carolina’s Biltmore Estate (10) and Pisgah National Forest (93); Georgia’s Tallulah Gorge State Park (34); Alabama’s Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (68) and Moundville Archaeological Park (114); and Tennessee’s Natchez Trace Parkway (91). The top alternative bucket-list destination was the Makapu’u Tide Pools in Hawaii. See the full list at honesteco.org.

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