Chattanooga News

The question of whether the Bessie Smith Strut remains in downtown Chattanooga or is moved to the Riverbend site may hinge on who takes responsible for it. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that Chip Baker, executive director of Friends …

The Rev. Bill Akers stood in a yard in Lookout Valley, pointing across a small valley at two stumps, gnarled remnants rising out of barren dirt in a place once flush with trees. Just a few hundred yards away, brush …