Celebrate the start of National Park Week with FREE admission to beautiful Point Park atop Lookout Mountain Battlefield! While you’re there, catch a free 45-minute tour on the Battles for Chattanooga, guided by a park ranger (offered at 11 am, 2 pm, and 4 pm).
You’ve heard the news—Chattanooga is officially America’s First National Park City! Now it’s time to celebrate in a big way! Hosted by Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors to kick off Earth Week, the celebration on the Chattanooga Green (right across from Ross’s Landing and the Tennessee Aquarium) includes a FREE concert that’s all about music, dancing, and community!
Visit the Chattanooga National Park City website for more details.
Completed in 1936, the iconic structure that became Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center was far more than a beacon for visitors. It was a blessing for a beleaguered population. We hope you will join us for this special program as we explore history of the building that hundreds, if not thousands, of visitors and residents drive past each day.
For those of us who typically trace our lineage, there is a strong patriarchal pull to our familial definitions. We often need not look any further than our own last names to stare down the proverbial barrel of how our families were established. However, indigenous peoples who lived on Moccasin Bend followed a different societal norm, namely one that traced kinship matrilineally, or through their female ancestors. During this program, we hope to learn some of the fundamental differences between these two ways of following our lineage and if one is necessarily more advantageous than the other.
