Collins Parker's blog

25 years ago there was no Aquarium.  No Hamilton Place.  No Coolidge Park.  And the Walnut Street Bridge was closed.  The economy was in a shambles as the old industries in town were dying.  It realy was a different world in Chattanooga.

Updated: Rating the best downtown decorations across the Tennessee Valley.  See how your town stacks up & find the best displays to take your kids to (the best are at the end).  Hint:  the biggest displays are in small towns!

We wrap up our Christmas Memories this year with a neighborhood lights dispute, emotional soldier homecomings, last minute shoppers, partying with the mayors & a family Christmas morning.

Hot toys, Christmas (w)rapping, lighting the houses & bridge, and a blast of 80s radio.  Do you recognize any of these people?

First Lady Laura Bush takes us on a tour of the White House decorations.  And Signal Mountain native Beth Tipps tells us how she was chosen to design one of the ornaments representing Chattanooga.

You can read about celebrities anywhere.  But here we keep up with people who actually know where Chattanooga is.  This time we're cooking with Dalton's Lori Beth Edgeman and celebrating 60 years of Samuel L. Jackson.

Compare our Grand Illumination to these lightings in Louisville, Indianapolis, St. Paul, Seattle, Denver & a Dallas neighborhood.