Chatter Magazine June 2017

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4 CHATTER MAGAZINE | JUNE 2017 CONTENTS 526148Art of Happenstance Things line up to give Anier Fernandez a new home and career Sweet Song Songbirds museum sings guitars' history 20 Under 40 Meet local superheroes DEPARTMENTS 26 IN TUNE CAVEMAN AT NIGHTFALL 28 DRINK LOCAL HIGH-GRAVITY BEERS 30 PALATE HOT CHICKEN 32 LIVING LOCAL SCENIC CITY SUPPER CLUB 34 DIVERSION BRAVES BALLGAME 35 BY THE NUMBERS SUNTRUST PARK 36 TREND BRAIN TRAINING 38 CULTURE RIVERBEND 40 HABITAT SHARON FUSSELL 87 FASHION TOMORROW’S LOOKS 94 COOL FINDS 96 CALENDAR 98 SKETCHBOOK BECOMEAFAN!

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Personally, my family comes to mind, though some of us are still in training. This month, as we kick off another summer filled with superhero blockbusters, we introduce you to more than 20 locals who fit the bill in our 20 Under 40 feature highlighting local standouts. I know that many of them have already earned their capes in your eyes as well. This year, we opened up the nomination process to the community, and got a lot of great submissions. It was a feat to narrow down the field.

How do you define a superhero?

Preserving those kinds of stories is exactly why the Songbirds Guitar Museum landed at the Chattanooga Choo Choo earlier this year. The world-class collection of guitars sings the siren song of legacy and ingenuity. You can read a sampling in writer Myron Madden’s feature this Ifmonth.youhaven’t yet mastered the licks that make up your own anthem, it’s never too late to earn your cape.

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To me, a superhero is someone who constantly rises above their circumstances; who accepts their weaknesses and utilizes their strengths; who works to protect people and principles, and to make themselves and life better for those around them.

While Scenic City transplant Anier Fernandez, a Cuban immigrant, isn’t one of our 20 Under 40 designees, he shares many of the same qualities. He — and others like him, who follow or make their own fortune, trading everything they’ve ever known for the hope of a better life — exhibit strength and resilience. Writer Gabrielle Chevalier sat down with Fernandez to hear his story and witness the silver-linings effect for those who have the faith and fortitude to follow their passion come what may.

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Another superhero trait is admitting your mistakes. We made two recently: The article entitled “Cannabidiol: Once a crime, now a cure,” which appeared in the April edition of Chatter, should have said CBD is only legal for those with “intractable seizures” or epilepsy so long as it is prescribed by a doctor licensed to practice in Tennessee. And the article entitled “Animal Activist,” which appeared in the May issue, should have said Wally’s Friends has facilitated more than 100,000 spays/neuters.

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All in all, this particular Nightfall concert is a perfect opportunity to witness some thing you could be talking about for years to come. Just ask the folks who caught The Black Keys back in 2005. ach year, you can almost guarantee that at least one act from the Nightfall Concert Series is on their way to bigger things. We’ve watched many artists over the years catapult to the next level, and with this being the 30th season of the free Friday night concerts, there are way too many who have proven this fact to list. Some of the more recent ones that come to mind are bands like The Black Keys, JJ Grey & Mofro, Dr. Dog and Dawes.

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Chattanooga-based singer-songwriter D.L. Yancey II is bringing his smooth blend of acoustic soul to Waterhouse Pavilion in downtown Chattanooga as he performs at the lunchtime series Noon Tunes on Wednesday 6/14.

One of the artists on this year’s lineup that seems to be on that same trajectory is the Brooklyn-based indie rock band Caveman. After releasing their third album, “Otero War,” last summer, right in the midst of the “Stranger Things” craze, Caveman’s synthheavy style of music couldn’t have come at a better time, especially with the lead single “Never Going Back.” But in actuality, the band has been making waves in the scene for a few years, even playing in the Southeast at events like Bonnaroo in 2014 and Shaky Knees Music Festival in 2016. With Caveman’s first visit to Chattanooga scheduled for Friday, June 30, the con cert-goers at Nightfall will be in for a treat when this band takes the stage. Playing a style of music that is somewhat reminiscent of 80’s new wave but with a little more rock and a lot less glam, this five-piece indie rock band delivers with precision in a live setting, with melodic tunes and soaring vocals from frontman Matthew Iwanusa. Come out early at 7 p.m. to catch indie rock ‘n’ roll band Okinawa, led by Chattanooga songwriter Charles Allison.

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This recently added brew, a dark stout brewed with raisins and cane sugar, has been pretty popular at Moccasin Bend Brewing Co., says brewer Braden Morris, though Chattanoo ga’s second-oldest brewery (after Big River Grille) has been making high-grav ity brews for awhile. An example is Moccasin Bend’s Goldenrod Belgian Strong, a Belgian-style golden ale with 10 percent ABV that sneaks up on you with its complex, easy-drinking citrus flavor. Since January, Moccasin Bend has added several more beers above the old ABV level, such as its tradi tional Scotch Ale, and plans to expand its high-gravity options further in the future, Morris says.

Change in state law raises local brewing scene to new heights

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While many local brewers are experimenting with high-gravity brews, Big Frog Brewing owner Carter Wexler says he’s sticking with his 10 tried-and-true ales for the time being. And Connor Choate, brewer and owner of Chattanooga’s newest brewery, Mad Knight Brewing, says he has no plans to brew high-gravity beer. He’s focusing on “sessionable” beers — those, typically with 5 percent ABV or less, that you can drink several of in one session and remain functional — as well as Belgian-style beers, saisons and pale ales.

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In January, Chattanooga Brewing Co. began serving this high-gravity option with roasted malt and mild hop flavors that become more intense with the warming effect of this stout. The brewery also has several small-batch brews clocking in at 7.2 percent ABV and above, including its Belgian Amber, Double IPA and a few stouts that will be on tap through spring. “We’re not trying to neces sarily push the limit as far as we can go; we’re trying to make the best beer we can,” Asmussen says, adding that the goal is to find the right balance.

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The new law means brewers (and their patrons) can explore new styles, such as Belgian styles that typically have higher alcohol con tents. However, that can create an issue for customers who are used to beer with 4.5 percent ABV. “You have to keep an eye on them,” says Chattanooga Brewing Co. General Manager Ian Asmussen.

OddStory Brewing Company taproom server Chris Lawrence pours a beer at the M. L. King Boulevard brewery.

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Another high-gravity option is the brewery’s new Russian Imperial Stout, brewed with chocolate, cara mel and roasted malts, which clocks in at 9 percent ABV.

Down the street at Hutton & Smith, you’ll find several high-grav ity beers on tap this spring. One of the top picks is this strong Scotch ale featuring a rich malt taste with hints of sweet cara mel. The other is the Bivouac Black IPA, combining flavors of roasted malt, pine and citrus with 8.9 ABV.

M any local brewers are adding new high-gravity options to their beer lineups following a change in Tennessee law that took effect this year. The tweak allows breweries to serve beers containing up to 10.1 percent alcohol by volume—up from the previous 6.3 percent ABV limit— without acquiring a separate license from the Alcoholic Beverage Commission.

OddStory Brewing Compa ny, which was only subject to the previous law on its open ing night this past New Year’s Eve, offers several high-grav ity options, including this dark Belgian Trappist beer with flavors of sweet orange peel and vanilla beans, says owner Bryan Boyd.

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Henpecked Chicken, a new concept by Nash ville-based Halo Restaurant Group, is the latest addition to the Scenic City’s growing hot chicken scene. The restaurant serves both hot chicken and regular fried and smoked chicken, says Henpecked Culinary Director Dave Story, who opened the Market Street restaurant in late April. But the dish he is most proud of is his hot chicken and cheese grits, served with a honey ja lapeno sauce made in-house. “Who does hot chicken and grits?” he laughs, acknowl edging the stretch from the original, simple product that started it all. “I’m from Nashville but I want to bring something a little different here.”Story vividly remembers his first hot chicken expe rience years ago at Hattie

W hen Thorton Prince cheated on his girlfriend one too many times, she decided it was time for revenge. So in the height of the Great Depression, the resourceful woman awoke her sleeping lover with the smell of fried chicken — which she had secretly spiced with every hot ingredient she could find in her kitchen.

The original Prince’s hot chicken joint, which was founded nearly 90 years ago and quickly caught on in the then-segregated, largely black neighborhoods, started the legacy of the now-fa mous food that has become synonymous with Nashville culture. That flaming-hot and somehow perfectly crispy fried chicken, served with a simple slice of white bread and pickles, is what I remember from my high school years. Well, that and trying to pretend my mouth didn’t feel like a roaring fire as the beads of sweat building on my forehead betrayed me. Few foods have the sort of story that surrounds hot chicken. But as Hattie B’s expands to Birming ham and East Nashville’s Bolton’s brings hot chicken to Chattanooga (and to chef and TV personality Anthony Bourdain, who dined there while in Nashville) — and the phenomenon trickles down even to KFC, which is attempting its own version of the fiery food — the folk lore of hot chicken has taken a backseat to the food itself.

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DILLREEJESSICAPHOTO: Traditional hot chicken is served on a slice of white bread, with pickles.

Rather than hating that first unknowing bite, Prince adored it. And though the relationship has long since ended, the concept his for mer lover created in anger has become a family legacy: Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack. Or so the story goes. A Nashville native, I grew up with the Prince’s chicken story before another Nash ville eatery, Hattie B’s, put hot chicken on the map.

A lover scorned, a dish created The tale of Nashville’s hot chicken takeover

PICKLE: Authentic means a few slices of dill pickles atop the cooked chicken. While this is part of hot chicken’s bread and butter, that type of pickle will just have to eat its heart out.

BREAD: While seemingly simple, the addition of 1-2 slices of white bread placed under the hot chicken has a big, tasty role: to absorb the juices and flavor … and to serve as a salve when you start to breathe fire.

STORYDAVEPHOTO: Henpecked’s hot chicken and cheese grits comes with a house-made honey jalapeno sauce. B’s in Nashville, where he ordered the second-spiciest option, the “Damn Hot.” “I was with my brother-inlaw and my wife,” he recalls. “And I was sweating, going, ‘I can’t finish Henpeckedthis.’”isa step below that level of heat, Story adds. “It is still going to be a good level of heat,” he assures. “It’ll be traditional hot chicken. … You’ll have the heat from the cayenne and theThosegarlic.”brave enough can venture onward to Bolton’s Spicy Chicken and Fish in Brainerd to heat things up a notch. Also derived from a Music City original and longtime family recipe, the chicken is the hottest in town, according to the restaurant’s website, though there are plenty of soul food staples to tone down or round out your meal. If you’re ever in Nash ville, head to Prince’s for an original experience, where Thorton’s descendents are still scorching the mouths of masochistic hot chicken enthusiasts. Just be sure to wash your hands imme diately afterward to avoid scorching your eyes; a little lesson I learned during my high school years.

CHICKEN: This may seem contradictory, but hot chicken isn’t just about the heat; it’s about the heat and flavor. Each restaurant has its own secret spice blend, and those spices are key. It’s this dry rub — not sauce (there is none) — that gives the chicken its heat and unique flavor.

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Scenic City Supper Club offers a delicious sampling of community

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The chefs work to plate the first dinner selection, smoked trout. Writer Jennifer Bardoner, right, is joined by Chatter advertising head Rachel Ward for the Scenic City Supper Club’s latest event.

32 CHATTER MAGAZINE | JUNE 2017 H eading into events like Riverbend, which shuts down all street traffic surrounding the downtown concert grounds to allow for the influx of revelers, I’ve always said, “When you can walk in the middle of the street, it’s a party.” Getting to dine in the middle of the street is even more exciting.

I’d heard of the Scenic City Supper Club in the way you hear about exclu sive establishments where the entrance fee is being beautiful, rich or famous. Tickets to the quarterly popup dinners are notoriously hard to get. In fact, the club event I attended on Cherry Street, Party in the Passage ways: Spring Block Party, sold out within a day. It was the largest event in the two years since Erik and Amanda Niel, the husband-wife duo behind Easy Bistro and Main Street Meats, started the club. Previous meals have sold out in minutes. Each event is held in a different location around the Scenic City and features a different lineup of wellknown chefs. Venues have included places like the rooftop terrace of the Love man’s building, under the Chattanooga Choo Choo’s dome and amid the wooded setting of Cloudcrest Farm in Rossville, Ga. The menus are always suited to the setting, the chefs’ specialties and what’s in season.

The meals offer not only the chance to try something new, but to meet new people. The crowd was not entirely what I had expected given my “must be in the know” assumption regarding the tickets and their $150 price. It was a much more eclectic gathering — a mix of young professionals clad in spring dresses and shorts, and pre sumably more established seniors in suit jackets and full makeup. After mill ing around Cherry Street enjoying artful appetizers, the easy-sipping specialty cocktail of the evening and checking out the art installa tions enlivening the sur rounding alleyways, we were seated at a long family-style table. All 150 of us. At first, the conversations were mostly those of neigh bors seated next to each other; most likely people who had come together. As the beautifully adorned plates and paired beers were brought around, conversa tions began to flow over the rustic boxes bursting with delicate blooms which lined the center of the probably 100-foot-long table. I man aged to end up across from someone from River City Company and someone from the Tomorrow Building with whom I’d made a connection during the cocktail hour, and as plate after plate was delivered, I shot them giddy glances.Thattype of ambiance is exactly what the supper club’s co-founders were go ing for. Everything — down to the tables and serving ware — speaks to the club’s mission of “community, not competition.” Each element represents a partnership with local craftsmen and businesses, which supply almost all of the necessary ingredients.Idon’talways have the most discerning palate, but

To stay in the know and hopefully score tickets of your own, connect with Scenic City Supper Club on Facebook.

The artfully plated trout dinner selection.

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Adam Evans, former executive chef of The Optimist and Brezza Cucina in ErikAtlantaNiel, executive chef and owner of Easy Bistro & Bar and Main Street LawtonMeats Haygood, grillmaster of Boathouse Rotisserie & Raw Bar, Canyon Grill, SideTrack and Sugar’s JakeRibs Cornish, chef de cuisine of Main Street Meats Dane Frazier, pastry chef of St. John’s JoeRestaurantWinland, owner and brewer of Heaven and Ale Brandy Cross, bartender at Easy Bistro Flowers by Petaline Floral

COCKTAIL Chattanooga Whiskey with strawberry allspice, Angostura, ginger beer and lemon (by Brandy Cross) HORS D’OEUVRES Cured mullet with English peas and fried garlic benne seed oil (by Adam GrilledEvans) oysters Rockefeller featuring ramp butter, Main Street Meats bacon, watercress and Asiago (by Lawton RyeHaygood)cracker topped with pickled ramp pimento cheese (by Dane Frazier) Main Street Meats bacon rillette atop a charred baguette with pickled ramps and kimchi powder (by Jake Cornish)

enjoying a meal, especially al fresco, is one of my greatest pleasures. Dining, to me, is an experience. It’s about all the elements: atmosphere, company, conversation, flavors and, of course, the food. The Scenic City Supper Club delivered on all fronts. I normally wouldn’t have ordered many of the items in store for us that evening, but I might have to reconsider should, say, swordfish sur face on another menu. Our selections had a decidedly fishy slant, but with none of the waterlogged flavor I’ve come to associate with (and which has turned me off from) most. Instead, the mild flavors of the sword fish and trout played subtle complement to the more familiar flavors of freshly roasted vegetables or picked strawberries. I don’t think I saw a single plate leave the table with more than a bite left on it. While I’m not necessarily a dessert girl, I am a cheese girl, so the blue berry cheesecake sundae with toasted almonds and a blueberry macaron was the standout for me. Its silkiness felt more like custard, and went down just as easily. Each plate was paired with a complementary beer. Hav ing been to a specialized beer dinner at Main Street Meats where the focus seemed to be more on the suds than the grub, I didn’t think these drew out the complexities of the accompanying dishes as much, but they were defi nitely tasty and well-paired. I did wish there was the option of wine pairings, but I imagine that could get very expensive very fast. In trying to do the math in my head, after seeing all that goes into each event, I figured they at best break even. The cost to transport or compensate the featured visiting chef, along with the professional servers, musical talent and sound and lighting guys, as well as to purchase all the real ingredients for a sati ating meal doesn’t seem to leave much wiggle room. My assumption was confirmed by one of the servers I knew as I thanked her on my way out. “It’s about the experi ence,” she told me, referring to the host of local chefs who collaborate to bring the Scenic City something deliciously unique. And I couldn’t agree more. Randy Gresham grills charred ramp tops.

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DESSERT Blueberry cheesecake sundae with toasted almonds and a blueberry macaron (by Dane Frazier)

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DINNER Smoked Pickett’s trout served with strawberries, ramps, peas, squash blossom, hibiscus labneh and rhubarb caviar (by Jake Cornish) Wood-roasted pork tamale cochinita pibil wrapped in banana leaf and served with grilled ramp-tomatillo salsa (by Lawton Haygood) Grilled and olive oil-poached swordfish served with marinated spring vegetables and glazed oxtail marmalade (by Adam Evans)

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All 41,000 seats in the new stadium are said to be good ones, positioned closer to the playing field and angled toward the diamond, which wasn’t always the case with seats at Turner Field.

Sun Trust is actually Atlanta’s first ballpark built specif ically for baseball, though there’s much more to do at the stadium than just watch ing the game.

The park is organized into “neighborhoods,” including what’s probably the best kid’s area at any ballpark in the country. Called “The Sandlot,” it boasts a zip line, carnival-style games and a climbing wall. Increase your kid’s chances of catching a fly ball by taking advantage of the free glove rentals offered at Atlanta-based company Mizuno’s booth inside the stadium (a credit card number is required as a “deposit” until the glove is returned). There’s also a space where fans can create custom jerseys, which can be adorned with a patch — available only this year — commemorating the Braves’ inaugural season at the park. Enjoy the park’s huge in ternet capacity, the largest of any park in North America, as you and tens of thou sands of other fans share big moments from the game si multaneously, and instantly, on Instagram. Check out the Xfinity Rooftop overlooking the ballpark and battery, which is free with a game ticket and features an indoor lounge with virtual and aug mented reality games, ping pong, foosball and, perhaps one of the most unexpected amenities, a walk-up Waffle House. Keep your beer cold with the ingenious insu lated “cup colders” at the Coors Light Chop House bar, which has a dugout-lev el seating area with just a chainlink fence between you and the action. One huge perk for Chattanooga fans is that SunTrust is closer than Turner Field, eliminating the need to go into Midtown Atlanta. This is especially beneficial considering the recent collapse of a bridge on Interstate 85, which Mize says hasn’t had a direct im pact on traffic immediately around the park and won’t affect fans driving from Chattanooga.Andwithparking lots surrounding SunTrust Park on all sides, the parking sit uation is also a big improve ment over Turner Field, which had one centralized parking area.“It’s a huge advan tage, especially for folks coming Waze,Braves’easier,CityChattanooga,”fromMizesays,explainingthatfansfromtheSceniccanparkinthenorthandeastlotsandgetinandoutwithoutgettingcaughtupintrafficcomingfromotherdirections.Findingaspotisalsothankstothepartnershipwithwhichgivesfanspersonalizeddirectionstotheirspotpurchasedinadvanceatbraves.com.YoucanthentakeanUbertothestadium’sdesignatedUberdrop-offandpickuplocation.“IthinkChattanoogawillfallinloveoncefansstartcomingdownandseeingit,”Mizesaysofthenewballpark.

“Chattanooga’s a huge mar ket for us, especially during the summer months when school’s out,” says Greg Mize, director of digital for the Atlanta Braves.

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Hope and Will’s Sandlot, the children’s area at SunTrust Park, keeps kids entertained with Bravesthemed carnival games, a zip line and a climbing wall.

SunTrust Park focuses on fan experience

34 CHATTER MAGAZINE | JUNE 2017 DIVERSION If you haven’t yet checked out the Atlanta Braves’ new home in Cobb now’sSunTrustCounty’sPark,agreattime to feel the difference those mesh seats make after sitting nine innings under the summer sun.

Fans check out SunTrust Park’s Xfinity rooftop during a soft opening game against the New York Yankees March 31. The space, which is open to anyone with a game ticket, features a lounge, virtual reality games, ping pong, foosball and a Waffle House.

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Brain training: Why exercise isn’t just for the body Think of eggs,list:groceryamilk,bread, peanut butter and cheese. Now, imagine pouring the milk into a round glass. As that glass sits in your hand, it begins to morph into an egg. When you crack the egg, two pieces of bread ap pear as if they’ve hopped out of a toaster. But when you touch the bread, it melts and covers your hands in sticky peanut butter. And then you grab a cloth to wipe it off, but you actually grab a block of cheese.That’s an incredibly rough version of the kind of memo ry device taught by the brain trainers at LearningRx, a national franchise that provides cognitive skill as sessments and lessons. This specific technique has to do with visualization, which can help someone remember a list by linking all of the items together through images. But what exactly is brain training?“Theidea behind it has to do with neuroplasticity,” says Michelle Davis, director of LearningRx Chattanooga, the only dedicated brain training center in the city. “Essen tially, it means the brain has the the ability to change any time through life. The brain can change by increasing the efficiency with which it com municates with itself.”

I am no longer avoiding difficult tasks, so [my] pro crastination has decreased. I am using memory tech niques learned in training to remember vital information in my daily work.”

Piracetam, considered the first nootropic, was synthesized in Europe in the 1960s and studies have yielded positive results in healthy individuals. The new brand of “smart drugs” sold by companies such as San Francisco-based Nootroo and Nootrobox, are nothing like the “Limitless” drugs in the Bradley Cooper film. But those willing to give nootropics a try (and pay the hefty price tag associated with many of them) can decide for themselves.

— Michelle Davis, director of LearningRx Chattanooga a ‘noo’ kind of help Far away from the Scenic City, Silicon Valley techies are on the cutting edge of a new way to improve brain function: nootropics. Named for the Greek word “noos,” meaning “mind,” nootropics are the latest trend touting improved, sustained brain function, memory, ability to juggle multiple tasks and more. Though studies behind the supplements — some of which are sold as a combination of known ingredients such as caffeine and ginkgo biloba in addition to receptor-enhancing drugs — are limited and new, the market is growing rapidly.

“...the brain has the the ability to change any time through life. The brain can change by increasing the efficiency with which it communicates with itself.”

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Growing that efficien cy, primarily focusing on cognitive skills like remem bering and paying attention, comes from brain training. And though many may think brain training is best suited for students, adults can benefit just as much from theByexercises.now,most people have heard of brain training games you can download to your phone, such as those by brands Lumosity and Peak. Generally, these games take the player through exercises that are timed, and may be used once a week for 20 min utes. Davis says these digital programs work in regards to neuroplastic change, but they tend to fall short in some core areas. “ … It’s digital, so it’s self-managed, so if you’re having difficulty in a certain area, then it’s difficult to push yourself,” she says, adding that the difference between digital apps and something like LearningRx is akin to purchasing a gym membership versus hiring a personal trainer. “You just really need consistent train ing to take place, anywhere from three to five hours a week.”LearningRx’s team of pro fessional brain trainers work one-on-one with an individ ual and target specific areas that need to be worked on. “Our programs can actual ly show changes in the brain and changes in IQ,” Davis says.One of the first exercises a brain trainee does is recite all the presidents of the United States. Just like the visualization technique us ing the grocery list, instead of a list of names, a string of images is used to help the reciter remember the presi dents in order. With practice, all of LearningRx’s trainees can recite the list of presidents forwards and backwards in 40 seconds, so this visual ization process is a valuable memory technique, Davis says.The cognitive skills that the brain trainers focus on are attention, memory, including long- and shortterm, or “working memory”; and processing speed, in cluding visual and auditory processing — skills the brain uses daily, Davis says. “The same reason that physical exercise is import ant for our bodies, mental exercise is important for our minds,” she says. But does it really work? It does, according to the “Karate Kid” of brain train ing, Eddie Russell, president of local security, custodial, landscaping and mainte nance company ERMC. He compares himself to the Karate Kid because, at first, he didn’t know how the exer cises he and his LearningRx trainer were doing were helping his cognitive skills, but after giving it time, he began to see a difference. “My mental endurance has improved. I can work longer and harder on tasks, and therefore get them done more quickly and efficient ly,” Russell says. “I can understand foreign accents better due to the training in auditory processing, which is extremely helpful in in ternational interactions. My ability to block out distrac tions has improved greatly.

Already, several companies have created specialty blends deemed 100 percent FDA-safe, and claim their neuroscientists have concocted a supplement to enhance cognitive function. Though widely available nootropics have not been around long enough for longterm safety studies, the idea itself is not new.

In fact, Russell has seen so much improvement from his experience that he wants to develop a program at ERMC to improve the company’s overall efficiency through training for his employees.

Don’t miss the Flaming Lips’ show the final night of Riverbend, as the band is known for its elaborate live performances that have in the past included frontman Wayne Coyne joining the crowd in a bubble or donning giant laser hands.

If you didn’t catch the Flaming Lips’ sold-out show at Track 29 back in 2013, don’t miss the alternative psychedelic rock band — named one of “the 50 bands you should see before you die” by Q Magazine — performing on the Coca-Cola Stage, just before the band jets across the pond to the UK’s Glastonbury Festival. The Flaming Lips don’t hold back with their live shows, which often include elaborate lighting, costumes, balloons, giant puppets and a human-sized bubble allowing frontman Wayne Coyne to enter the crowd. The spectacle is sure to make for a spectacular finale for the festival, which con cludes with fireworks following the band’s set June 17.

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For the first time in many years, the festival is again featuring late-night acts from 11 p.m. to midnight on the Chevy Stage, located on the green at Power Alley in front of The Blue Plate. Hear your KZ106 favorites live with classic rock cover bands Legacy (June 9) or the Bo Ashby Band (June 11), or sing along with your favorite karaoke and dance tunes as Convertibull takes the stage (June 15). Check out local country group the Tyson Leamon Band (June 10), the authentic blues sound of the Delta Rockers (June 14) and Jason D. Williams’ mix of honky tonk and rock n’ roll (June 16).

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Join Riverbend in celebrating our servicemen and women with the festival’s Military Appreciation Night June 16, which complements the patriotism of Coca-Cola Stage performer Toby Keith, says Amy Morrow, marketing director for Friends of the Festival.

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Fulfill a young musician’s dream with the Creative Discovery Museum’s new Camp Riverbend, which gives kids ages 10-14 the opportunity to explore the stage, work with the lighting and stage crews, and chat with some of the performers. Campers will also get to visit the new Songbirds Guitar Museum, where the future songbirds will get a chance to try their own hands at per forming onstage. Kids will also love the sand sculptures of Coca-Cola Stage performers, located on Riverfront Parkway heading away from the Coca-Cola Stage toward the Hunter Museum, where a new selfie-worthy sculpture is added every day of the festival. 6190 Georgetown Rd.,NW • Cleveland, TN www.eppersonsjewelers.com423-479-2847

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Check out lots of free samples from a variety of vendors, such as bottled flavored teas from Gold Peak Tea. They’re the perfect (as in, free) accompaniment to gator on a stick, which must be tried at least once.

The U.S. Army is among the sponsors of this year’s Riv erbend, and will be set up with representatives on-site. Every night of the festival, servicemembers and veterans can get one-day passes at a discounted price of $20.

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HABITAT |MAGAZINECHATTER 2017JUNE 42 While livestechnicallyshealone, there’s semester.sparestayingheadingCollegestudio,workoutclientsPilatesthathome,LookoutSharonandsomeonealwayscominggoingfromFussell’sMountainwhetherbeoneoftheinstructor’scomingforainherhomeoraCovenantstudenttoclasswhileinoneofherroomsfortheIt’snotuncommonforFusselltohaveafullhousearoundtheholidays,andshelovestohostvisitingartistsperformingwiththeChattanoogaSymphonyandOpera.“It’sjustfuntohaveabigenoughhousethatyoucandothat,”shesays.“It’ssomethingIwillmissifIeversizedown.”SharonandherlatehusbandDavidFussellmovedfromMissionaryRidgetoLookoutMountainwhentheypurchasedthehousenextdoortowheretheirdreamhomenowsitsin1998.Theyupdatedtheexistinghouse,whichwasbuiltin1952,butitwastheland—fourandahalflotsoverlookingRockCityonGnomeTrailinFairyland—thatreallyattractedthemtotheproperty.“Myfatherwasinrealestateandalwayshadavalueforland,andheinstilledthatinme,”shesays.SheandDavidhadalwaysenvisionedeventuallybreakingapartandsellingpiecesoftheproperty.Soafterlivingintheexistinghouseforalmostadecade,theydecidedtosellitandbuildthehomeinwhichSharoncurrentlyresidesontheadjacentland.“Ihaveabsolutelythemost

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|MAGAZINECHATTER 2017JUNE 43 wonderful street,” she says, adding that most of the resi dents are very friendly with one another and sometimes host neighborhood parties. One of those neighbors, Beth Soloff, had recently built on her own property, inspiring the Fussells to craft a dream home of their own.Like most people who love to build and remodel homes, Sharon had a thick file full of cutout maga zine photos of her favorite design elements awaiting the start of her next project. She worked with archi tectural designer Nancy Underwood, owner of Signal Mountain-based Residen tial Designs, to incorporate those elements into a space that fit the couple’s needs and lifestyle.

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At nearly 7,000 square feet, the cottage-style home has four bed rooms, each with its own bath. An open floor plan is highlighted by 10-foot ceilings on the main level, which includes a formal dining area, sunken living room and eatin kitchen, all tied together with oak flooring and a red-and-black color scheme throughout. The moody palette is brightened with natural light from the floor-toceiling glass-paned doors facing the bluff, topped with unique diamond-pattern transom win dows, an architectural detail used throughout the home that’s among Sharon’s favorite features. She’s also a huge fan of the exterior, made of Hardie board and mountain stone, as well as the colors she selected for the interior with the guidance of local decora tor Marsha Yessick. “I chose colors that I like to wear,” Sharon says, adding that she loves the “espe cially yummy” color chosen for the great room and front door, Rasp berry Truffle, a warm red with tones of orange and chocolate. diningstudioroom

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The kitchen features a Sub-Zero refrigerator, Wolf range, wine storage, island and pantry. The Key lime green of the terrazzo-style tile flooring is echoed in the window treatment, back splash tiles and flowers on the wallpaper. The black background of the wallpaper design complements the black granite countertops and island, contrasting nicely with the white WoodMode cabinets. Skylights help bring in natural light and highlight the twin chan deliers suspended from the vaulted white tongue-andgroove ceiling. The home’s stellar view can be enjoyed from two large screened porches, one of which is located off the kitchen and living room on the main level. The other sits off the upper-level bedroom suite. Sharon says she loves a cozy fire, which she can enjoy in the master, the great room or the screened porch off the kitchen — and which is perfect for enter taining guests. When she finds herself alone, she can linger over a cup of coffee in the master without ever heading to the kitchen, using the master’s hotel-style beverage station. Each of her grandchildren has at one point slept in the nursery, which is attached to one of the guest rooms on the second level. The bed room connects via a bath room to a separate seating area featuring hand-painted scrollwork to match the room’s window treatments and the bathroom wallpaper pattern.Another aspect of the home Sharon adores is the landscaping, which, like when she and her husband lived next door, was all planted by David Fussell, including weeping cherries, corkscrew willows, Japanese maples and rhododendrons. “It was his passion and his hobby,” she says of her late husband, who passed away suddenly from an aortic dissection in 2014. Added in the spring of 2015, the spacious recreation and media room on the lower level was a space he had en visioned their grandchildren using when they came to visit. It features a ping pong table, entertainment center, plenty of storage behind red barn-style sliding doors, built-in bookcases and a guest room with private bath that’s currently occupied by a Covenant College student.

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A telescope beckons stargaz ers near the bench seating along the bay windows over looking the bluff. Playful gnomes are scattered throughout the property, and one can imag ine the mischievous little men escaping from nearby Rock City to find a per manent perch on Fussell’s front stoop, hanging in her magnolia tree or holding an exterior light. Lower level rec room

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As Anier Fernandez crossed the U.S. border for the first time in his life, he knew only three things: He had never left his home country of Cuba before, he had only $300 to his name, and he had no other choice. An artist by trade, Fernandez was origi nally headed to an art show in Mexico City, but the artwork he’d carefully and excitedly packed to ship to meet him — much of which was pre-sold and would cover the cost of his return ticket — never arrived. He had paid a $2,000 fee to participate in the show, and with his art missing and the authorities unable to do anything aside from filing a report detailing the 10 pieces, hopelessness consumed him. That was March 8, 2014. Three years later, the 28-year-old Fernan dez is making a name for himself as Main Line Ink’s accidental apprentice. He is a gift ed artist, tattoo shop co-owner Jennifer Edge is quick to say — unless Fernandez is listen ing, in which case she’ll tell him to “get back to practicing” and toss him a knowing grin. “We can’t let his ego get to him,” she laughs.

How one local tattoo artist is drawing a new future forhimself

“But the kid has been tattooing for two months, and look at his work. It’s incredible.” Fernandez simply tucks his head back down and refocuses on his work, asking for Edge’s critique. Is the pressure with the needle enough? Too much? Are the lines clean enough? “I still have a lot to learn,” he says.

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50 CHATTER MAGAZINE | JUNE 2017 Fernandez graduated from the premier Oscar ofMoreraFernándezAcademyArtinTrinidad, Cuba, a widely respected and intensive art school.

“privilege” of belonging to the artistic community, as such specialty skills often open doors that harsh travel regulations around the world would otherwise keep closed. The vast majority of people don’t have such speedy options available, he says.But that doesn’t mean Fernandez hasn’t faced hardships. Arriving in Chattanooga on March 11, 2014, he spoke no English. He had no job. His art was gone. And the love of his life, a woman named Elizabeth, was still expecting him to re turn to Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, clueless as to how drastically his existence had changed.

“I sent her an email,” he says with a laugh, looking down at the tattoo shop’s floor. “I didn’t have the balls to call Now,her.”the couple talks ev ery day — “every single day,” he emphasizes — and Eliza beth is his wife, though they have only seen each other once since the wedding. A visit to his home country to see her in 2016 afforded the opportunity for a whirlwind ceremony. The couple is working to attain a visa so she can join her husband and the new future he has been passionately working to Cubacreate.has no future for an aspiring artist, Fernandez says, and he hopes every thing will line up for his now-wife the way things did for him. Though she was in medical school, she dreams of the land of opportunity he describes during their daily conversations. First, however, her visa must be approved. Pending that, she will have to redo her school ing on another continent, in another language.

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But Fernandez has faith — and hopefully a little luck left.“I just hope to get her here this year,” he says. For eight months follow ing his arrival, Fernandez worked at Amazon. Then came the second domino in his fortuitous new life. He landed a job as an artist for the now-completed M.L. King AT&T mural project, allowing him to return to the career he loves and paint the depictions of the people and landscape that now adorn theThebuilding.thirddomino, which fell about a year ago, came Fernandez tattoos Main Line Ink co-owner Jennifer Edge for the first time.

Technically, tattoo shops are illegal in Cuba, though the stigma is starting to dis appear, he says. “No one says anything,” he says. “I even see police [there] with tattoos.” As he’s become more versed in this new field of art, Fernandez has looked to blend the surrealism concepts he used most in his painting days with the watercolor style favored by Edge and the clean linework for which Siviter is known, forging a style all his own.

— Anier Fernandez

Previous to his move out of Cuba, he preferred tattoos with a traditional style, char acterized by solid black out lines, a muted and limited color palette, minimal detail and a focus on precision of lines.“Now it’s realism, but I want to put a little bit of watercolor, a little bit of that bulk line on it,” he says. “It’s going to change a lot more. … When I moved here from Cuba, my concepts shifted. I’m just trying to consume it all.”The same sense of despair that haunts him from those initial three days in the airport also inspires him, he says. It’s the reason he strives to be the first artist in the shop in the morning, and he’s frequently the last to Sometimesleave. Fernandez forgets about all the dom inoes that perfectly lined up to give him a new life. It often takes a road sign or the sight of an American flag to remind him he’s not going to wake up back in that Mexi can airport with tears in his eyes and seemingly no way to move forward. In October, Fernandez will be a fully licensed tattoo artist with the shop he now views as his second home. Hopefully, he will do so with his wife Elizabeth by his side. And in two years, he will apply to exchange his permanent U.S. residency for full-fledged American citizenship.“Thisismore than an apprenticeship for me,” he says. “It’s everything.”

CHATTER MAGAZINE | JUNE 2017 51 via the same friend who’d purchased Fernandez’s plane ticket to America — and who had a connection to Main Line co-owners Edge and Danny Siviter. “We never planned on having an apprentice,” Edge says. “Unless I decide to have a child, he’ll be the only one I ever have.” But when Fernandez sent his artwork to the studio, which has steadily been making a name for itself since opening several years ago on Main Street in the Southside, Edge says she felt compelled to meet with him. It was more than just the artwork in his portfolio that drew them together. “When I heard his story, I knew,” she says. “I had goosebumps.”Fernandezhad gotten a few tattoos from his friends in Cuba but never really felt connected to the alternative art form. And he definitely never envisioned becoming a tattoo artist himself. Then he realized painters and tattoo artists can share the same under lying“Youmission.painton people. They’re walking around with it,” he says, pausing as he searches for the words to fully articulate his newfound passion in English. “You become a walking gallery,” he clarifies, “and that’s incred ible. It’s beautiful. I dream about it every single day.”

Three tattoos Fernandez says showcase his evolving artistic style.

“You become a walking gallery, and that’s incredible. It’s beautiful. I dream about it every single day.”

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I SONGBIRDSWHYKNOWTHESING SONGBIRDS GUITAR MUSEUM LETS THE INSTRUMENTS TELL THEIR STORIES

In 1967, after stunning a crowd at the Monterey International Pop Festival with his unique sound, rock legend Jimi Hendrix knelt down onstage and did the unthinkable: He set his guitar aflame.

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The stunt, immortalized on the cover of Rolling Stone, won the young artist the nation’s attention, but it also helped to save what is now considered history’s most popular electric guitar from extinction. The guitar he torched — then subsequently smashed to pieces — was a Fender Stratocaster, and Hendrix could make that bird sing higher and sweeter than any other musician before him. Artists who made the “Strat” their instrument of choice, such as Hendrix, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton, sent thousands running to stores to purchase a gui tar whose production had been reduced due to a lull in popularity. By 1969, the Strat was a top-seller, and its dual-horned design was on its way to becoming the most copied of all time.

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That’s why Songbirds Guitar Museum has taken on the responsibility of preserv ing timeless guitars like the Stratocaster while inspiring the next generation to savor the craftsmanship of an age not yet forgotten.Everyinstrument has a story to tell, and Songbirds Guitar Museum has been invit ing all to hear the tales its guitars recount since opening in the Chattanooga Choo Choo complex on March 10.

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Visitors can tour the exhibits to get a full picture of the guitar’s evolution from the 1920s to the 1970s, but the most captivating part of the experience for many is learning what each individual instrument has wit nessed and all the places each has been. Before finding a place in the collection, many of the guitars were dragged from bar to bar, concert to concert and studio to studio with little thought about the value they would one day hold, says David Davidson, museum curator and chief operating officer. They had beers spilled on them and drinks rested on them, were dropped, battered and bruised. But save for a few battle scars, the sturdily built guitars, many now more than 50 years old, have seen it all and survived. “They’re a living testament to the dura bility and the quality of the craftsmanship and workmanship of the American worker during the golden age of vintage guitar building,” Davidson says of the pre-1970 guitar industry, before cheaper wood and machine manufacturing robbed the world of such Severalmasterpieces.oftheguitars have been strummed to life by famous hands of yesteryear — from early country-western artists to jazz musicians to rock idols. Others were handled only by small-town dreamers, nameless garage band rockers and casual music-lovers who never made it home from Vietnam. But all carry the stories of these unique people and places, and Songbirds is now part of that story. Here is just a sample of the stories the museum’s rarest guitars have to sing.

But those glory days of rock have passed, and while the guitars of old are still just as impressive as they were at their peak, the icons who once thrust them into the spotlight have all but disappeared.

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The pop culture museum houses the largest private collection of rare and vin tage guitars in the world, with 550 on dis play at any given time and a total of 2,000 (and counting) currently in its possession.

Jimmy Page plays a double-neck guitar at an A.R.M.S. Concert in 1983. Eric Clapton plays his favorite Fender Stratocaster, nicknamed Blackie. In 2004, Blackie was sold for $959,500 at a Christie's auction to support the Crossroads Centre, a drug and alcohol addiction rehabilitation center founded by Clapton.

The guitar was her moth er’s, she told Davidson, and though she was hesitant, he convinced her to at least let him take a picture of the twin guitars side by side. The two met up in Anne’s home out side Boulder, Colorado, and sat at the dining room table. When Anne opened the case, Davidson nearly lost his mind. “I just absolutely freaked,” he remembers. “I had never seen a guitar cut like that.” He immediately tried to buy the instrument from her, and she immediately said no. The guitar was her mother’s, she repeated, holding her ground even after Davidson pulled out a knapsack filled with $100“Nobills.joke,” Davidson inter jects. “These guitars are ex pensive. You could buy houses for the prices of these guitars.”

The collector went home empty-handed yet deter mined to get his hands on Bertha’s old guitar. He sent

Guitars imbued with such sentiment are often the hard est to ask families to part with, Davidson says. But few were as difficult to acquire as the twin Telecasters permanently displayed in the museum’s ever-changing collection. The instruments belonged to twin sisters Bertha and Esther Friedlich, members of a now little-known band called theWhenTweedledees.theduotraveled to Santa Ana, California, to buy guitars from Fender Sales Inc. in the late 1950s, they were presented with a left-handed and right-handed Telecast er to match their individual preferences.Esther,the thinner of the two, was happy with the left-handed guitar she tested, but her heavy-set sister was miserable. The right-handed guitar she sampled was too heavy and didn’t fit her body well, she told sales repre sentative Don Randall — the marketing mastermind who named the Stratocaster and helped bring Fender to fame. Randall brought the problem to George Fullerton, vice president of production, who was somehow able to convince company founder Leo Fender to craft a special guitar, a feat in and of itself since Fender was notorious for never wanting to make any thing custom for anyone. “He figured if he did it once, he’d have to do it for everyone,” Davidson explains, adding that would mean buying more materials, hiring more employees and building more than one spray booth to meet the resulting demand for variety.Fender story.Davidsoncationsneveragreementwasnywithonlylabelband,whoandhalfmodificationsbodywithfashionedbegrudginglyaguitarforBerthaanarmcontourandacuttofitherframe.Thetook2andapoundsofftheinstrumentthrilledtheyoungwoman,wentontoplayforherwhichwassignedbyabutneverrecorded.HerTelecasterbecametheearlymodelinexistencethatcut—thecompamadesureofit.Fullertonevenrequiredtosignanstatinghewouldaskforsuchmodifitobemadeagain,says.“That’saprettyinterestingButthat’snotthestory,”hepromises.“Itgetsbetter.”WhenDavidsonlearnedofaleft-handed,three-toneguitaraboutfiveyearsago,hetraveledtoClearLake,Iowa,tomeetupwithanelderly

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Esther, who was ready to sell. After the transaction, she mentioned her late sister’s guitar and told the guitar buy er it was Intrigued,special.Davidson reached out to Bertha’s daughter, Anne, to ask about it. The first words out of her mouth were, “It’s not for sale.”

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That’s because one-of-akind variants like it weren’t made on assembly lines during regularly scheduled business hours. They were built in secret after the lights were shut off, the boss went home and history’s anonymous crafts men were left free to let their imaginations run wild. They toiled through the night, building guitars with ridiculous or masterful designs just to see if it wasThispossible.EB2has earned a place as one of Davidson’s favorites in part because of its whimsical nature. The instrument has the large body of a bass guitar, but it is paired with the slim, tiny neck of a tenor guitar. From the looks of it, the seemingly dispro portionate guitar should have fallen apart years ago. “[It’s] almost like a “likewithDavidsonspoof,”saysagrin,ajoke.”

UITARS LIKE THE EB2 TENOR ELECTRIC WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN FOUND IN ANY CATALOG.

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Neil Young plays his guitar, Old Black, at a Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Concert. Old Black is allegedly a heavily customized 1953 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop.

But the concept is nowhere near as impressive as the design behind it. Despite the apparent maldistribution of weight, the guitar is well balanced by various elements in its makeup, such as a spe cial cut-down bridge built to accommodate the four pole pieces (for four strings) on a guitar that would normally have six. “Somebody really took their time,” Davidson says. “This is major engineering. It’s like a feat to make this The EB2, like many other variant creations, never graced the fingers of stars. In fact, it was probably barely played, Davidson says. Its creator, whose name has been lost to history, simply built it to see if he could, and that in genuity has landed his handiwork a spot among the rarest guitars in the world. SING TO

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Anne a Christmas card at the end of the year and for every year that followed. Each card held only his phone number and a short message: “Call me last.” It was his way of promising he’d pay the highest price whenever she was ready to sell.After three years of Christmas cards, Davidson got a call from Anne, who wanted to know what would happen if she sold him her mother’s guitar. She was worried the instrument would just be passed from one buyer to another and that her mother’s legacy would completely disappear, so Davidson pitched an alternative. He told her he was building a museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a vault that would house the most historic guitars of all time. Then he promised that if she sold him the instrument, he would give both Friedlich sisters’ Tele casters permanent residence in that vault and tell every single person who tours it the story of her mother, her aunt and what it took to get their guitars.Finally, she agreed, but when Davidson asked her how much she wanted for the instrument, she surprised him. “You can have the gui tar,” she said. She was only interested in preserving her mother’s legacy. And so far, Davidson has. The twin Telecasters have their own special case in The Vault, and every staff member learns the story of Bertha and Esther Friedlich so they can pass it on to “Sometimesvisitors. it’s all about dollars and cents. If you pay them enough, they’ll sell it,” Davidson says of buying guitars. “But for some people, there’s not enough money in the world.”

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All Access Tour: $38.95 per person Includes guided tour of Main Exhibit Gallery, The Greenroom and The Vault

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W HEN MOST PEOPLE THINK OF ELECTRIC GUITARS, THEY PICTURE THE VIBRANT SPLASH OF COLORS THAT BECAME STANDARDIZED IN THE 1960S. BUT THE FIRST CUSTOM-COLORED GUITAR FENDER EVER BUILT WAS NOT A BOLD SHADE OF RED OR AN ELECTRIC BURST OF BLUE; IT WAS A CREAM-COLORED WHITE. AND IT WAS SPECTACULAR.

Admission Individual: $15.95 Includes self-guided tour of Main Exhibit Gallery Family: $54.25 Two adults, two children, self-guided tour of Main Exhibit Gallery

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In 1951, a custom color for the young company was anything that diverted from the standard honey blonde, but it wasn’t just the shade that made this guitar eye-catching. The Olympic White instrument sported gold-plated hardware and a clear pickguard varnished with gold leafThepaint.beauty now in Songbirds’ collection landed in the lucky hands of swing jazz artist Oscar Moore, who played alongside Nat King Cole before the latter became one of the first African-Americans to host a national television variety program, “The Nat King Cole Show.”Some speculate that Leo Fender presented the guitar to Moore during a push to make his instruments seen in the hands of performers from many genres of music, and the gold plating may have been a lure for Moore since the style was more common in the archtop guitars favored by jazz players. The most interesting part of this tale, however, is that Moore received a guitar without a name.When the No caster was originally introduced in 1950, it was called the Broadcaster, a play on the term “broadcast radio,” which was the media giant at the time. After a few months of production, however, Fender received a telegram from fellow instrument manufacturing company Gretsch. The message notified the guitar company of its potential copyright infringement on Gretsch’s trademarked Broad kaster drum series, forcing the guitar-maker to change the name. Fender instructed factory work ers to snip the word “Broadcaster” off the guitar’s decal, and it wasn’t long before the employees started referring to it as the “Nocaster.” Weeks later, the model was re named the Telecaster after the new up-and-coming media format, television, but the Nocaster name has stuck as an amusing nod to Fender’s first days.■

Songbirds has already seen visitors flying in from all around the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom, but Davidson is hoping the museum will attract more locals as it continues to make Chattanooga its Withhome.a collection vintage guitar aficionados travel halfway across the globe to see, the masterminds behind Songbirds could have established the museum anywhere, but Davidson says they chose Chattanooga because they wanted to help facilitate the city’s growth. Davidson, who has been traveling to and from Chattanooga for business for 15 years, says he has seen the improvements local leaders and business owners have made to the city over the last five years alone, and he hopes the museum will help push the city even further toward its Thegoals.museum contracted local companies like building design company Range Projects and architectural firm Cogent Studio to build out the space, and Davidson hopes to continue to support local business by drawing tourists to the Southside and its mom-and-pop restaurants and shops. He invites locals to help support the museum in turn by coming out to visit its rotating and permanent collections featuring a little something for everyone. Hours

CHATTER MAGAZINE | JUNE 2017 59 A LITTLE BIRDY TOLD ME… In the Songbirds museum you will find: ■ Over 300 classic American acoustic and electric instruments. ■ Over 30 Gibson Sunburst Les Paul guitars from 1958 through 1960, considered the holy grail of electric guitars and a pricetag to prove it. ■ Over 300 custom-color Fender guitars, many one-of-a-kind. ■ Over 75 custom-color Gibson Firebird guitars, even rarer than customcolor Fenders. ■ Prototype guitar models by Fender, Gibson and Gretsch. ■ Much more. FOR MORE , SONGBIRDSGUITARS.COM.VISIT PHOTO: DAMIEN ROGERS

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S idekick ( S ): I have an incredible team both at work and personally that help me every step of the way. … The people I work with daily on the Lookouts staff are an incredible group of people that I consider to be my Chattanooga family, and I hope they do too. It takes all of us working together to bring Lookouts baseball to life. In life, my parents and my family could not pos sibly have been more supportive in everything I have done. When I moved 2,400 miles away from home to start my career in sports, they were the first people to share my excitement, and they were out there in Albuquerque every season cheering us on. They have always been willing to help me and my brothers any possible way they can so we can achieve our goals. I also have an amazing boyfriend who is awesome and makes everything that was once good, great.

S uperpower : Always getting the job done and having fun when I do. I may not always know what to do or feel like I have enough time to do it, but I will always give everything I have to make everything I do the best it can be and have as much fun as possible when I’m doing it.

a rc H - neme S i S : Rain on game days. But se riously, the unknown can be quite the nemesis. Things can come up all the time and those out-of-the-blue situations can often cause the biggest problems since you have so little time to plan a solution, and that can lead to negative thinking. And like anyone, my biggest arch-nem esis is often myself, and it is unplanned situations that can bring my own negativity to the forefront. But it’s times with unexpect ed problems that I try to push out negative thoughts and only focus on positive solutions to whateverissuehas come up. If you just move forward step by step, it will all work out. S ource o F S trengt H : Right or wrong, I find strength in not wanting to let other people down, and that drives me to try to do the very best I can in everything I do.

B eing a S uper H ero mean S : Trying to do the best job you can to give everyone you interact with the best experience possible. You can affect people in so many little ways and I always try to be a positive spot in someone’s day rather than a negative. .

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B eing a S uper H ero mean S : Helping others uncover, develop and fulfill who God created them to be.

V illain S Faced : My own selfish desires. What I want is not always what’s best for me. Thankfully, God’s providence prevails.

m i SS ion : Reconciliation of the “two” Chattanoogas. On the one hand, Chattanooga is a beautiful city with wonderful natural assets and economic growth, while on the other hand, vio lence is rampant, schools are failing and hope is absent.

S uper H ero mentor : My dad. He is the most generous person I know, with both his money and his time. He always puts others first. And I have yet to en counter anyone with a better work ethic. He was a great example to me growing up on how to balance work and family. a rc H - neme S i S : Pride. It can take you to some bad places and help you rationalize bad decisions.

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S idekick ( S ) : My wife. She knows me better than anyone, and yet still supports me in everything I do — which sometimes means holding me back when I have crazy ideas. She balances me out perfectly.

Bart rolen, 37 Executive vice president and head of private client services with Atlantic Capital Bank; Managing director of Southeastern Trust Company S uperpower : Negotiating. Ask my wife, she’ll tell you I can make my way sound like it’s good for everyone.

S ource o F S trengt H : My wife, Stephanie, and my family. It’s tough to always be so far away from my parents and sister in England, but I’m lucky to live one block away from the greatest in-laws in the world who also support me immensely. And also, the Volkswagen Workers Founda tion, which has very generously supported Operation Get Active from the beginning, in addition to other local foundations. B eing a S uper H ero mean S : Not being afraid to take risks when you feel strongly about something. 65

peter woolcock, 31 Director of Chattanooga Football Club Foundation’s Operation Get Active; Co-host of CFC Radio S uperpower : My good nature. Living all over the world — Austra lia, Namibia, China, the UK, India — has taught me to get along with all sorts of people, to always have a good attitude and to adapt to change quickly. c atc H p H ra S e : “Chalo!” It’s a Hindi catch-all term basical ly meaning “Let’s go!” uttered all the time in India, and it reminds me to be open to opportunities and to live life like I mean it. a rc H - neme S i S :

Anyone who downplays sport’s ability to have real, meaningful impact. The field I’m in (sport for development) is fairly new in the States but I’ve worked on sport devel opment projects all over the world and am always blown away by the simple power of sport to transform lives. S idekick ( S ): My water polo team in university. It’s what got me through college, what taught me the power of sport, and what set me on my career path of using sport as a tool for positive change in communities around the world. S uper H ero mentor : Bananaman (he’s a 1980s British super hero), because he has a healthy message. And I love bananas.

V illain S Faced : I’ve come face-to-face with people that haven’t wanted to see others succeed. I think everyone comes across these “villains,” and you defeat them by keeping a good team by your side to support you and to stand up for you.

mkatieorgan, S uperpower : Dependability. I like to think that I show up, no matter what, for the people that I care about in my life. If there’s a crisis or a problem that needs to be solved, I’ll be there to help you figure it out.

B eing a S uper H ero mean S : Helping someone when they really need it. Superheroes offer kindness and support to others in both dramatic ways and small gestures.

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m i SS ion : Through my work at the CHA and volunteering for the Grateful Gobbler Walk, which supports the Maclellan Shelter for Homeless Families, I’ve seen fam ilies struggle to find a safe place to go when they come across hard times. Homeless families have to grapple with the choice of sleeping on the streets or in their car with their small children so they don’t have to separate to go to a shelter. Some families don’t have the simple luxury of having a roof over their head, and I wish I could change that.

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S uper H ero mentor : I’ll have to admit that without googling mythical superheroes, I don’t know much about them. I have, on the other hand, met lots of re al-life superheroes who “come to the rescue” for people all the time. My superhero-of-a-boss, Betsy McCright, helps people without being asked, she tends to save the day when something goes wrong, and does it while having a lot of fun. Since I arrived in Chatt Town almost four years ago, she has shown me kindness and has been a role model. She is a real-life superhero to many people around her.

Coffee. Lots of coffee. Also, positive peo ple who genuinely have my best interests at heart. My family, friends and co-workers continuously motivate me to push harder to accomplish my goals.

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reginald F. SmitH ii, 31 Executive director of The United Methodist Neighborhood Centers Inc. (The Bethlehem Center) S uperpower : Superhuman perception that’s only second to precognition, and a strong sense of manhood.

V illain S Faced : Personally, the pressure to perform in a competitive world while balancing my passion for helping people. By far the biggest villain I face is helping people overcoming uncer tainty, doubt, fear, poverty, educational attainment and faithlessness in urban com munities. S idekick ( S ): FFF: Family, Friends and Fraternity. All have contributed to my under standing my responsibility and duty to uplift humanity and be a blessing to others. a rc H - neme S i S : The Status Quo and Bureaucracy, which sometimes work as a team. Bureaucracy is the arch-nem

esis that never believes it’s the bad guy and supports The Status Quo. S ource o F S trengt H : My faith. A hero’s real power al ways comes from within, and from God. m i SS ion : To share my power of perception with others. They’d be able to temporarily see and feel what others see and feel, the way others see and feel it. This would open the eyes of many to the large number of people who are unseen and whose voices are not heard. Our community is a strong one, and with more empathy from people who just don’t know or understand the of the plight others, we could be the best city ever.

S uper H ero mentor : My father, Reginald F. Smith Sr. It was he who taught me the ideal of manhood, the need for scholarship, the sacrifice of perseverance, and gave me the responsibility to uplift those in need. He is also a member of my fraternity, which further reinforces these very ideals and principles. 67

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uperpower : Making people smile and passing along a cheerful attitude.

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B eing a S uper H ero mean S : Going above and beyond what may be expected of you, pushing yourself beyond what you thought you could do, overcoming challenges and daring to make a positive difference in others’ lives in some way.

S ource o F S trengt H : Knowing I have the support and love of friends and family and knowing each challenge I face leaves me stronger and more prepared for the future.

my room and get groceries, but it taught me how to prioritize and make time for the things and people that are important to me.

m i SS ion : To treat others as I would want to be treated or how I would want my family treated. Spreading more love, acceptance and respect for each other would impact one person at a time and would make a tremendous difference in our community.

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V illain S Faced : Losing my father at a young age presented some challenges for me and my family, but we didn’t let that stop us from supporting and loving each other through the hard times into better, brighter days. Learning to balance a social life, philanthropy, work and a rigorous graduate course-load may have had me scheduling time to take a shower, clean

S idekick ( S ): My … family. I have a smaller family that shows love toward me and others in our com munity. When I feel defeated, they always seem to show me the light at the end of the tunnel, while still being realistic. They know what makes me tick and how to make me laugh when I never thought I could smile again. They keep my head on straight.

S ource o F S trengt H : Kind of an ironic statement to look up to my younger brother, but [I do so] with great reason. His childhood differed from mine, un fortunately, and because of that he had to become the man of the house. His unconditional kindness for everyone he meets and unwavering strength is what gives me strength on the days I want to throw in the towel.

S uper H ero mentor : Wonder Woman. When I was growing up, I saw a beautiful woman that had brains but could also kick some tail. She was an inspiration to me as a little girl watching her and reading her comic books. She never took “no” for an answer and absolutely, under no circumstances, ever gave up. To this day, I’ve remembered how I felt watching her and applied her characteristics to my life. 69

m i SS ion : Chattanooga is constantly improving and I love my city! We once were considered dirty and average. Now, Chattanooga is one of the prettiest and [most] thriving cities in the U.S. But if I could change anything in our city it would be to leave no child behind. All of our schools deserve the same treatment to give our children the opportu nities and tools to succeed. This change is farfetched for one person to achieve, but our commu nity is growing together and we could flourish and be invincible. Our future begins with our youth.

madySon Sloane FoSter, 25 Executive assistant/marketing manager at Capital Square LLC; Dance instructor/choreographer with Tennessee Youth Ballet; Co-chair of Red Shoe Society S uperpower : Healing. It’s in my nature to resolve issues and to help others when they need it most.

V illain S Faced : Villains and negativity are every where in this world. Growing up in the pre-profes sional dance world, there is constant competition — [both] friendly and aggressive. I had to mature quickly and learn to brush off any hateful words that were slung my way. Thanks to these “villains,” I could always treat others the way I wanted to be treated: with kindness and respect.

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Vice president of commu nications and recruiting for Covenant Transport S uperpower : Passion detection. I firmly believe that if you can help people find their passion and purpose in life and encourage them to pursue it, they will be a more fulfilled employee — even if they find their passion outside of work.

S uper H ero mentor : Jimmy Neutron. Obviously he’s got great hair that I’ve attempted to duplicate, but also, he’s always looking for solutions to problems through inventing new ideas. I tell people all the time that my goal is to have five ideas a week. Four of those won’t be the greatest, but one of them will be a home run. We can’t ever stop having ideas.

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V illain S Faced : Hopping industries. I switched about five years ago to trucking, and even though my “specialty” remained the same, you im mediately walk into the new place knowing you know less about the company and the industry than anyone in the building. But you have to dig in and just play the “new guy” card for six months and power through the change.

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B eing a S uper H ero mean S : Having the ability to empow er others to succeed. One person can only do so much, but one person that can en courage and motivate those around him can accomplish far more. a rc H - neme S i S : Bad discern ment. When you are wired the way I am and you are driven to have new ideas and to do things new ways (and have fun), you are often times asking other people to change. And that’s something I’ve got to be careful about. I have to be able to discern if they will accept it the way I’m hoping they will, or I can end up causing issues. I’ve said enough times, “That didn’t exactly go the way I planned,” but instead of letting that stop me, I just try to discern better going forward. S ource o F S trengt H : Just being able to help someone and make their day a little easier. Luckily there are many opportunities around us all each day to do this.

26caSHiaarpenter, Owner of Divine Dance Studio and Creative artsAcademyLearningperformingpreschool S uperpower : Helping children gain confidence and other important character istics while mentor ing them through the art of dance. S idekick ( S ): My team of fantastic dance and preschool teachers. B eing a S uper H ero mean S : Finding your strengths and using them for the greater good. V illain S Faced : Self-doubt. a rc H - neme S i S : Time, because it moves too quickly. S ource o F S trengt H : Seeing excitement on children’s faces when they learn new things and gain confidence. m i SS ion : artists.creativeopportunitiesMoreforoutletsfor S uper H ero mentor : My parents, because they are so hard working and made it a point to instill that same characteristic in me. 71

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S uperpower : There are only so many hours in the day. I’d like the ability to clone myself. It offers endless possibilities to make con nections, go the extra mile for my clients, and maybe even play golf at the same time. a rc H - neme S i S : The Ever-chang ing Tax Code! S ource o F S trengt H : The drive to get the most out of each day. I once had a mentor tell me, “If you are bored, you aren’t maximizing your talents and ability.” I try to tackle each day passionately; that way I’m never bored.

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S idekick ( S ) : I am very fortunate to have a wonderful team behind me. First and foremost, my family and friends support me through all my endeavors. Without our won derful team at HHM, I wouldn’t be able to beat those tax and audit villains. Finally, my referral network is a group of folks I can always rely on for sound profes sional advice.

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B eing a S uper H ero mean S : Self lessly helping others and giving cred it where credit is due. My team wears the cape, I just drive the Batmobile. I am very fortunate to have a won derful team around me that does an amazing job. Through their efforts, we have been able to accomplish a lot, both professionally and in the nonprofit world. I do not consider myself superhero.a

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V illain S Faced : Myself. Laird Hamilton once said, “Make sure your biggest enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears,” but I’m a tough critic. I always strive to be the very best version of myself; for my clients, my friends and my family.

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m i SS ion : To make Chatta nooga’s public schools the best in the world, where all children reach their full potential. S uper H ero mentor : Ruth Holmberg. She was instrumental in creating the two nonprofits in Chattanooga that I love most: PEF and the Women’s Fund. Ruth was a generous philanthropist, but more importantly, a hard worker who lived her values.

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Vice president of Public Education Foundation, External Relations; Board chair of Women’s Fund of Greater Chattanooga S uperpower : Finding four-leaf clovers. It’s not the most lucrative super power, but I AM lucky! c atc H p H ra S e : Nevertheless, she persisted. V illain S Faced : Alzheimer’s disease. My mother was diagnosed in her early 50s and I spent much of my 20s feeling sad, angry and lost. The slow decline is agonizing. There were times that I was overwhelmed with grief, but now I have a full and joyful life. I named my first daughter after my mom and I honor her love of public education (she was a teacher!) with my work at PEF. S idekick ( S ): A gaggle of gal pals. I have a huge network of girlfriends that I’ve collected over my life, dating back to el ementary school. They are my counselors, my brain trust and my dance partners. I often hear that women are barriers to each other’s success, but I’ve found the opposite to be true. My women friends have always encouraged my growth and success and I look for opportunities to do the same for them.

m i SS ion : To empower people to accurately see that fear is behind the many ways we’re “stuck” and unhealthy, but that we always have the ability to internally choose how to respond to what’s happening inside or outside of us — which is inherently empowering, the opposite of fear, and is the foundation of resiliency and balance (aka “health”).

V illain S Faced : The status quo; greed; laziness; ignorance; fear. And since true advancement or paradigm shifts occur one funeral at a time, I sup pose I’m facing the woefully advanced state of pharmaceuticals which keeps old men alive and in power, and the world from growing and maturing, far too long.

S idekick ( S ) : The Pain Team — phys ical therapist Jason Therrien, DPT, “the soldier”; psychotherapist Tyler Orr, LPC, “military intelligence”; mindfulness and yoga teacher Janka Livancova, “deep co vert CIA”; and self-described soft-tissue therapist Tim Russell, LMT, “special ops” — and my biggest teachers in recent years: mind/body medicine specialist Howard Schubiner, MD, and Franciscan priest Richard Rohr, OFM. B eing a S uper H ero mean S : On my better days, not that much; it’s just a job. When I can begin to accept myself, my life and others as they are, I can sometimes find a bit of balance between embracing and inhabiting the necessary parts of power and leader ship and denying those parts that lead me to scapegoat or feel self-righteous. It means trying to be the best husband, son, brother, physician, “yard guy,” cyclist, etc., I can reasonably be; doing what I can to embrace the freedom we’re all offered and capable of inside ourselves so I don’t make things any worse for myself or anyone else.

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36mwmattHewilliamcclanaHan, Doctor of osteopathic medicine board-certified in family medicine and neuromusculoskeletal medicine; with a Master of Arts in exercise physiology S uperpower : Relentlessness.

S ource o F S trengt H : People discovering their own strength, including myself.

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V illain S Faced : I’m super-compet itive in everything I do and extremely goal oriented. Fear of failure used to really hold me back. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve adopted the attitude of “It’s better to try and fail than never try at all.” It’s when you really put yourself out there that the best things start happening. B eing a S uper H ero mean S : I think every person is a superhero in their own way because everyone has their own unique gift(s). I just wish everyone would use their “powers” for good. a rc H - neme S i S : Time. There nev er seems to be enough of it in any given day. … Maybe I would want my superpower to be the ability to make clones of myself so they could just handle everything I need to get done and I could spend the day hiking.

S ource o F S trengt H : The way this community supports its neighbors in need. I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the most inspiring people who devote their lives to making sure Chattanooga is a great city for all. Whether it’s caring for homeless who are in need of end-of-life care or pro viding food boxes for hungry families, there are people doing amazing work every day in this city! 75

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Brianne lalor, 32 Chief development officer for Northside Neighborhood House S uperpower : Storytelling. Through my profession, I get to share people’s success stories in grant writing and testimonials. It’s incredible to hear such stories of resilience and know you work for an organization that played a part in helping others persevere and succeed.

m i SS ion : This is a tough one because I see firsthand the many struggles com munity members face. I think afford able housing is a huge issue, so I would harvest my powers to change that by building affordable housing for all.

mdaVidartin, 37 Communications director for Briteside Holdings; contribut ing opinion columnist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press S uperpower : Message-craft ing and spotlight-shining. B eing a S uper H ero mean S : Using gifts selflessly. V illain S Faced : “Urgency” gremlins and echo chambers. S idekick ( S ): The Martin Squad (fam) S ource o F S trengt H : My wife — the more impressive Martin by far. I routinely play Robin to her Batman. S uper H ero mentor : Samson. [He was] super-strong and had great hair. a rc H - neme S i S : Dr. ADD. m i SS ion : Give more acknowl edgment to the heroes who are actually in the trenches fighting daily to make this city stronger and more connected. JUS76

a rc H - neme S i S : Myself. I am a firm believer that if I can control my thoughts, then I can control my reality, within reason. Challenges and struggles are stepping stones to success. If you’re able to maintain a posi tive mindset through the good times and the bad, even your failures will be successes. m i SS ion : To show how helping others truly is the key to happi ness. This city has such a huge heart for nonprofits and helping those in need. If more people would get involved in the many opportunities this great city provides to help others, every Chattanoogan would experi ence and know that giving is living. B eing a S uper H ero mean S [ H aV ing ] an un B reaka B le commitment to a cau S e greater t H an one S el F . 77

kyleBarelS, 30 Affiliate Broker with Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Signature Co-owner/artisticBrokers;directorofDanceTonightChattanooga B y day .... S uperpower : Inspiration. Whether someone is wanting to reach real estate goals, become a better dancer or become the best version of themselves, I pride myself in being able to help them achieve their desire. c atc H p H ra S e : Seize every moment!

S uper H ero mentor : Batman. He is real, human, and not over powered. He faces his personal demons every day — as do we all — and he puts the needs of others and his city above his own. V illain S Faced : Self-doubt, procrastination, judgment and a desire to please everyone.

My Board of Directors [is comprised of] individuals both living and deceased who at some point along my life’s journey have poured consistent wisdom and guidance into my life: my grandparents, the Rev. and Mrs. Thomas W. Harris (deceased), who taught me the power of process, patience and prayer; and my profession al/spiritual mentors Raymond Swoffard, Shula Yelliott, Bishop James M. Scott Sr., Rhonda Rippy, David Shands and Bryan S. Harris, who all continue to provide me valu able growth and development support. My second team is my stealth weapon that I affectionately call my Kitchen Cabinet, a small yet powerful group [of people] who are the forces behind every decision I make: my wonderful husband, Julian Ewing, who continues to teach me the beauty of loving and being loved in total authenticity; my parents, James and Maryland Massie, who provide a continuous ex ample of what it means to make your life count by serving others; and my one and only sister, Shemeka Tibbs, who through her spirit of resilience and perseverance continues to show me the strength in pressing forward in the face of any obstacle.

S idekick ( S ): Everyone needs a team, and I am fortunate enough to have two.

S uper H ero mentor : She-Ra (the 1985 heroine) because she … usually only resorted to com bat as a last re sort. She often used her wits to outsmart her adversaries. I believe She-Ra may have been the impetus that spurred my “mind over matter” attitude toward life. a rc H - neme S i S : Doubt. Doubt does not stem from a lack of evidence, but from what we believe about who we are, what we can do and what we can have in life. Many people say “If I just saw it or if I had a direct word from God, I would believe,” but it doesn’t work that way. Doubt is only present when we don’t believe in who we are created to be in this world. As a woman of faith, I completely despise doubt.

lakweSHia J ewing, 37 CEO/founder of Unlearn Everything & Live; Co-owner of Biz Boom App LLC S uperpower : An abundant amount of faith-driven vision.

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S ource o F S trengt H : Seeing my clients get strength. I love to watch my creative work in action. If it helps them grow their business, get clients, even if it just makes them smile because they love my ideas, at the end of the day, that’s all I need.

m i SS ion : I’d like to help Chattanooga capitalize on its location and maximize on different cultures. I’d like to bring in more restaurants, more shopping, more music and concerts; things like that. Chattanooga is only getting better and better. I’d like to help the city continue to inspire people.

S idekick ( S ): I have the best team behind me: my friends and family, of course; my co-workers, who make every day better; and designers who have paved the way and offered inspiring advice that lasts a lifetime.

Art director with Southside Creative S uperpower : Pulling an idea out of a client’s mind and turning it into something real. It’s challenging, to say the least, but I’d like to say I’m pretty intuitive, especially when it comes to knowing what clients want. Maybe I can read their mind, or maybe I’ve just been doing this for so long I’ve perfected the art.

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V illain S Faced : Find[ing] new ways to stay inspired [daily]. That may sound silly, but ideas get old and trends grow stale. I’m always fighting to have top-notch ideas for my clients. Those are the people I want to be the proudest of my work.

S uper H ero mentor : My mom will forever be my favorite superhero. She’s worked so hard to overcome countless obstacles, and I hope one day I can be even half the woman she is. In fact, I think all moms are superheroes. They have the hardest job on the planet and they wear a number of different capes. a rc H - neme S i S : Monday mornings. And humidity. 79

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a rc H - neme S i S : Sleep. m i SS ion : My issue I would like to change is not Chat tanooga-specific, but could certainly help in the efforts of Chattanooga 2.0. I would like to enhance the earning potential of our public and private K-12 educators. Many educators are intrinsically motivated. However, I believe the people responsible for molding our children should be compensated fairly for the time, energy, dedication and importance of their role. S ource o F S trengt H : Children smiling, plenty of exercise and family time. S idekick ( S ): My husband, parents and siblings. They allow me to pursue my career, dedicate time to public ser vice and surround my children with love and family.

mSteFanieanSueto, 37 Relationship executive with Chase Middle Market Banking & Specialized Industries S uperpower : A sense of urgency. V illain S Faced : Intimidation and fear.

S uper H ero mentor : My grandmother. She is almost 90 years old, has five children, 24 grandchildren, is absolutely beautiful, never complains, always smiles and loves un conditionally. B eing a S uper H ero mean S : Transforming yourself over time into your best self.

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S ource o F S trengt H : Proving the naysayers wrong. Breaking through societal expectations and statistics.

I’m pretty good at taking a 50,000-foot view of situations to prevent problems from occurring — it’s what I do for a living! — and when they do occur, which is sometimes inevitable, I’m pretty good at finding effective resolutions.

From the time I started saying I wanted to be a lawyer, to finishing my different levels of education as a former teen mom, to now being a small-business owner, there have always been those people who have told me what I could not do.

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V illain S Faced : Too many to count. Poverty, single-par ent household, absent father, being a teen mom and a single mother myself for 10 years (through half of high school, all of undergrad and law school), and more. Each of these issues, and more, was difficult to navigate, but with my faith in God and the support of The Directors, I was able to overcome.

B eing a S uper H ero mean S : Doing the impossible and mak ing a difference; standing up for those who cannot stand up for themselves.

a rc H - neme S i S : Naysayers.

S idekick ( S ): The Directors. I have always had someone, be it a teacher, family mem ber or friend, who helps me stay focused during challeng ing times.

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It’s loud, but it’s the sound of progress. It’s the sound of hope. Something great is coming. It’s the sound of a home being built. To a family in need, it’s music to their ears. Habitat for Humanity has been making places for people to live for decades. In Chattanooga, the con struction savvy nonprofit has been in the business of brick-built dream building since 1986. To date, more than 260 of these new homes have been built in the Scenic City.

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Dominique Brandt, director of community en gagement, has been with Habitat for Humanity for Greater Chattanooga Area for more than four years now. She has seen the direct impact of Chattanooga Habitat’s work. Each of these homes is filled with people she has met and cared for extensively. “We are setting our families up with a means to provide strength and stability for their children,” Domi nique said. “There is nothing more empowering and dignifying than seeing a family who might have had a bad start put in the work, help build a house and begin an established future. At Chattanooga Habitat, we’re about making dreams a reality.” These dreams are built using materials both great and small. Every nail, screw and detail matters. It’s the little things that raise a house. “Every aspect of our job furthers our mission,” Dominique said. “It could be as simple as stapling paper together or doing a presentation or putting together our annual gala. Each thing we do, great and small, connects directly to transform the lives of future homeowners.”

ammers hit nails repeatedly. The strike can be heard down the street. The whirl of electric drills and saws carry through a neighborhood in Chattanooga’s Alton Park. The percussion of power tools drives late into the afternoon.

Jeff Olingy, senior vice president for community engagement, explained that Atlantic Capital strives to make the places they work better for all—whether that’s in Atlanta, Chattanooga, Charlotte or Knoxville. It’s about being accountable for each other.

“Stewardship means, ‘the responsibility of overseeing and protecting something considered worth caring for’--from our clients to our communities to each other,” Jeff explained. “We do this by protecting and growing our clients’ financial resources, respecting everyone’s time and being there when people need us, and being conscientious and committed.”

“Ultimately, we are in the relationship business,” Olingy said. “We believe in the importance, benefits and true pleasure of teamwork, whether it’s working side-by-side with our clients, with our coworkers or with our community.” Make something great together. Partner with an ex perienced Atlantic Capital banker to help you build out your financial future. Atlantic Capital will do the heavy lifting. It’s a team effort. Building is never a solo project. The Amish would enlist an entire community to raise a barn. At Chattanooga Habitat, it’s no different. They rely on committed community members to lay futures brick by brick. And not all help comes in a hand to help hammer a nail.

Atlantic Capital Bank has been building futures alongside Habitat for several years, lending aid wherever possible—from financial support to strategy meetings.

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“Working with Atlantic Capital has been fantastic,” Dominique said. “They have always sought to make their financial partnership as meaningful as possible. They have always asked, ‘How else may we be a part?’ To them, it’s not just about writing the check; it’s about investing in organizations they

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as well as face painting, bounce houses, special animal enrich ment and animal encounters. And what’s more, the zoo will close early to the public, so ticket-holders are ensured some sweet alone time with the animals. Advance tick ets cost $5; if not sold out, wristbands will be sold the day of the event for $8 each. (Does not include price of zoo admission.) Visit chattzoo.org for tickets and more.

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Crabtree Farms is set ting the table for an evening celebrating local food and Chat tanooga’s culinary inspirations. The seven-course meal will be prepared on-site, with meats, vegetables and more all from within 100 miles. The splendid dinner will be accompanied by local brews and wine amid the ambiance of the farm’s rolling fields and music by Bluetastic Fan Grass. Visit crabtreefarms.org/the-100-dinner to score tickets before they sell out.

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“Although I started my art studies in watercolors, I have more recently chosen acrylics and mixed media as my favorite methods of expression. I’m especially drawn to bolder colors and texturing. “I am relatively new to art studies. I feel that I can grow as an artist by creating challenges for myself in subject matter as well as composition. If I can create an interesting piece that speaks to each viewer in a personal way, then I have accomplished my goal.

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“I challenged myself with a class in abstract art and found that I enjoyed it. This painting was titled ‘Nexus’ because it linked my new love of abstraction with an older passion: painting skies. The title is also significant in the transitioning planes of the painting which provide an interesting visual linking of parts.”

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