Kennedy: Former Tennessee Temple coach leads push to stop human trafficking
Reba Bowman, a former college basketball coach, has a commanding voice that one imagines grew strong by calling out plays from the bench and rallying players d…
Reba Bowman, a former college basketball coach, has a commanding voice that one imagines grew strong by calling out plays from the bench and rallying players d…
How's this for a double feature: I attempted to watch 1939's "Gone With the Wind" and 2024's "Civil War" over the same weekend.
What was an Indianapolis 500-style race car doing in Chattanooga in 1965?
When Chris George, now 33, was 10 years old, he inherited a gold, Illinois-brand pocket watch that had belonged to his great-great-grandfather.
Is college worth it?
The calf-length skirts and roller-sculpted hairstyles say it all: Welcome to the 1950s.
There is an intentionality to John Lynn's word choices that suggests he has a biblical mindset.
When I was in college in the 1970s, Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. Pryor's albums were near the top of the record stack in our dorm room, along with LPs…
It might be a small footnote in the colorful history of a Chattanooga baseball legend, but the Joe Engel Bat Co. was big news in 1952.
They race across the entrance to Finish Line and dart past Dillard's. They wouldn't dare reveal Victoria's Secret, but they might drop a few coins at Jos. A. B…
Dylan Rivera was working at an upscale retail store in downtown San Francisco when he overheard a woman in the store with a musical Southern accent.
When Emily Asciolla Thomas was 10 years old, she complained to her mother that all of her friends seemed gifted — in sports or dance, for example — yet she had…
When it comes to communicating, texting is about as old-school as banging out letters on a Smith Corona typewriter.
In the 1960s, Rambler automobiles represented middle-of-the road family transportation, but by 1969, the last of more than 4 million Ramblers produced in North…
When he was growing up in Central Florida, Joel Tippens would hop into his dad's 1968 Chevrolet El Camino and the two would drive into the woods to forage for …
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about death. I've always assumed our days are numbered and that God already has our checkout date on the books.
Looking back, 1964 was a landmark year for aviation in Chattanooga.
It would be hard to find a bigger solar eclipse fan than Charlie Steinhice, a 64-year-old BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee business analytics manager.
According to reports in various news outlets last week, Tennessee is the most stressed-out state in America.
In 1906, the seven-story Pound Building on 11th Street was considered one of the city's first "skyscrapers." In fact, it was the city's tallest building when i…
One of the first childhood memories attorney McCracken Poston Jr. has of Alvin Ridley is the former TV repairman appearing in his house one day to fix a broken…
Where you live says a lot about who you are.
I think it's a sign of growing older that you spend an extra amount of time missing things about the past.
For almost 60 years, the Home Plate Cafeteria at the corner of Seventh and Cherry streets was an iconic downtown eatery featuring a selection of meats, vegetab…
How do you trust a doctor whom you've just met?
I received an email last weekend from the granddaughter of a man named R.C. "Doc" Anderson, an astrologer and prophet who practiced here in the mid-20th centur…
Poe's Tavern, a pine log replica of Hamilton County's first courthouse and post office in Soddy-Daisy, is getting some new furniture.
Softball boomed in Chattanooga in the post-World War II era.
People move to new cities for lots of reasons: jobs, climate, lower taxes. Haley Graham and her now-husband, Andrew, moved to Chattanooga about a decade ago f…
This November, for the first time, both of our sons will be of voting age.
The former Pines Motel on Ringgold Road was typical of roadside motor courts in the 1950s; it was situated along a busy highway and anchored by a small restaur…
On the night before his 2019 heart transplant, while lying in a hospital bed in Nashville, Chris Hopkins couldn't shake a troubling thought: For him to live, s…
Almost everyone in my family identifies as a country music fan. When we go on family vacations, the car radio always gets locked in on a country hits station, …
In the mid-20th century, R.C. "Doc" Anderson, a self-described astrologist, was a recognizable figure in Chattanooga known for offering $2 fortune-telling sess…
I teach a writing class at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, partly to learn what's important to young adults. As the parent of 17- and 21-year-old s…
It no doubt took a few curlers to sculpt the hair of the young women in the accompanying 1963 photo. Hair styles of the period, with "heavy bangs and voluminou…
For most of his life, 38-year-old Brock Olsen says people have told him that he has a keen understanding of human relationships.
From appearing in off-Broadway shows in New York City to challenging herself with banking and development jobs in Chattanooga, Caroline Walker seems to always …
13-year-old learns life lessons from grandfather, other adults during monthly 'man meetings.'
A funny thing about turning 65: The universe starts telling you to "watch your step."
Much like in January 1966, Chattanooga recently experienced a widespread snowfall followed by a spell of bitterly cold weather.
It takes seven minutes for photographer Megan Ledbetter to walk from her parked car to a secluded cemetery in a gulch near Stringer's Ridge in Red Bank. That s…
Our 12-year-old dog, Boise, is afraid of power outages. Like, hide-under-a-pillow afraid.
In 1954, the busy corner of Brained Road and South Germantown Road was undergoing changes.
They are an unmatched pair. One muscled and mellow, the other trim and intense.
As a father of two children born in the 21st century, sometimes I wonder where the next generation of American leaders will come from and what institutions wil…
Time was, local car dealers gave away automobiles to worthy causes.
More than a century ago in Chattanooga, prostitution led to prosperity.
Anyone born around the middle of the 20th century might remember the Four Tops' song "I Can't Help Myself." It topped the pop charts briefly in the summer of 1…
When the Memorial Auditorium opened in Chattanooga in 1924, it was only a few years removed from the end of World War I. Built between 1922 and 1924 as a tribu…