Over the last two or three weeks, I’ve had similar conversations with several different people about the current status of our city. All of the conversations have taken place with people who, like myself, have lived here for quite awhile.
They usually start with the same question, or the beginning of the same question: “Can you believe?”
The second part of the query has been either “that Chattanooga has a festival like Moon River?” or “that Chattanooga has a hotel charging $400 a night for a room?”
My answer to both: “Yes, I can.”
Barry CourterWe do not live in the same city we grew up in, and I don’t think many of us, those of us who still live in Brainerd or Ooltewah or Hixson or Signal Mountain, see it.