
Chattanooga’s ‘Hat Guy’ is a throwback to the ’70s
Andrew Buckland said he hit a rough patch in his personal life a few years ago.
Andrew Buckland said he hit a rough patch in his personal life a few years ago.
If I want to make myself sad, I can just listen to the 1974 song "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin.
Today's residents of Signal Mountain might not recognize this particular cluster of retail stores in the Signal Plaza Shopping Center.
Zibin Guo, a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga anthropology professor, remembers the moment he knew his work teaching tai chi to military veterans was on …
When our 16-year-old son is feeling down, you can tell immediately.
This weekend marks the 30th anniversary of one of the landmark local weather events of the 20th century, the Blizzard of 1993.
A Hixson mom would like to take the chore out of doing chores.
I've noticed for a while that my high school classmates are getting old — bless their hearts.
While Chattanooga is becoming known worldwide for the production of electric vehicles, namely the new Volkswagen ID.4 SUV, electric cars have been a hot topic …
When he was at Dalewood Middle School more than 20 years ago, Roland McIntyre III remembers a financial advisor coming to his classroom one day to talk about i…
Chattanooga families don't have to travel very far to find quality children's activities. The city itself is a wonderland for parents and their little ones.
Brooke McFarlin, 18, and Alayna Grover, 19, are unlikely business partners.
I don't usually eat while typing, but today I made an exception.
In the spring of 1951, the conflict in Korea was dominating newspaper headlines as life went on here at home.
If heaven were designing a knitting mill, it would look like the backroom at St. Alban's Episcopal Church on Hixson Pike.
In Sunday School class we've been talking about what we learned from our parents — and, in turn, what we owe them back.
In 1965, color televisions had just begun to enter the Chattanooga market.
A few years ago, Sewanee, Tennessee, artist Jessica Wohl had an idea for an art exhibit.
A word to the wise: Don't raise grumpy kids.
This aerial view of the North Chattanooga area in 1960 recalls a time when landmarks there included the Hamilton National Bank, the Town & Country Restaurant a…
Crissy Varnell, a manager at the Chattanooga Public Library, has a notebook she keeps handy for jotting down ideas.
Facebook has decided I'm most interested in three things: Ford trucks, baby-boomer hospitalizations and high school dances.
Many children of the 20th century remember the traveling libraries known as bookmobiles.
At Chatter Magazine, our archives read like a catalog of interesting people who've helped shape our city's culture. We'd like to shine a spotlight on a few of …
Jess Flack is the last person who you'd think might suffer from "imposter syndrome," the nagging feeling that you aren't quite up to the job at hand.
When he was in elementary school, Jacob Smith carried a railroad spike in his pocket.
If there is anything we oldsters can agree on, it's that we are in a season of 401(chaos).
Billed as the first "modern house" built in Chattanooga, the Rivermont abode in the accompanying advertisement was the talk of the town.
The cover of 19-year-old Hannah Lowe's self-published novel shows the silhouette of a young woman walking alone toward a red sunset.
My father was my first boss. Or perhaps more aptly, he was my sergeant and I was his private.
Carolyn (Gant) Towles, a retired Florida elementary school principal, was clearing out files at her home recently when she stumbled upon a piece of Chattanooga…
Most college kids would settle for a trip to Florida for spring break.
Do you have a child or a grandchild who is part of Generation Z (born 1997-2012, according to Pew Research)?
Solving the mystery of this photograph required enlarging the image and reading the name tags.
Commercial airline pilot Barry Twitchell told his wife and daughter in October he was going to Seattle to retrieve a vehicle he purchased online.
"Careful!" I called out as our two sons locked up in a tangle of arms and legs while wrestling in the family room.
The year was 1964, and more than 100 exhibitors had packed the Hotel Patten in downtown Chattanooga for one of the city's biggest gun shows.
Maxwell King, a 20-year-old computer science student at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, was hanging out in the department's commons area one day la…
Cherie Martinez, a retired United Airlines pilot, turned 65 (the mandatory retirement age) in March 2020, just as COVID-19 hit the United States. The virus spr…
The image is from the files of the former Chattanooga News-Free Press and was taken by photographer Bob Sherrill.
Let me just spit this out: At age 64, I enjoy watching soccer more than I enjoy watching NFL football.
In the 1960s, the Town House Hotel and Restaurant on Georgia Avenue in downtown Chattanooga was an inviting destination for visitors to the city.
Southern Living magazine recently asked its readers if sending Christmas cards is a dying art.
Something the character John Dutton said in a recent episode of the TV series "Yellowstone" struck me.
For a stretch of years from the mid-1940s until at least the early 1960s, The Elite beauty salon flourished in the lobby of Chattanooga's James Building at Eig…
On the Appalachian Trail, hikers sort foods into either of two categories: "friend" or "foe."
On the first floor of the Times Free Press building on East 11th Street there's an old teletype machine.
In 1946, thousands of American GIs were just back from the fighting in World War II, and what better way to welcome them home than by offering them rugged, bat…
Todd Cassell, a teacher and coach at Gordon Lee High School in Chickamauga, Georgia, has seen the numbing effect mobile phones have on students.
It took some effort, but we tracked down this photo in the archives of the Chattanooga News-Free Press.