Moccasin Bend from Point Park on Lookout Mountain
Credit National Park Partners
Here in Chattanooga, Forever Moccasin Bend is the fundraising effort led byNational Park Partners - starting with Opening the Gateway - that will add park and new visitor amenities at the District s Gateway Site.
Former Congressman Zach Wamp led the eight-year effort in Washington to create the District back in 2003.
Another person who knows well the history of Moccasin Bend - and has helped to shape what it is today - is Mickey Robbins, now on the board of National Park Partners.
And for decades, Sally Robinson has played a key role in revitalizing Chattanooga’s downtown and riverfront development - including three terms on the City Council and the long road to Moccasin Bend today.
Scenic Roots Radio Show Has Series On Moccasin Bend Friday, December 11, 2020
Mickey Robbins
Through a special partnership with WUTC 88.1 and the Scenic Roots radio show, National Park Partners presents a series of interviews in December with leaders in the effort to preserve the historic and cultural legacy of Moccasin Bend.
First to be interviewed was Mickey Robbins, longtime Board of Directors member going back to the earliest days of the Friends of Moccasin Bend. Mr. Robbins shared some key moments in nearly 100 years of efforts to preserve Moccasin Bend, including a 1920 s attempt by prominent Chattanoogan Adolph Ochs.
Next up was former Congressman Zach Wamp with a civics lesson in how the grassroots community effort to save Moccasin Bend ultimately resulted in the National Park legislation he wrote and pushed through Congress in 2003. Congressman Wamp offers a glimpse into why Moccasin Bend has been a focal point of human habitation for millennia.
the intelligent methodologies that work. instead we argue for a lawless regime that has absolutely no history of being effective. and all of that comes out each time when one of these situations happens. and we make a mountain out of a mole hill. while i think it was stupid to smoke in a bathroom, what happens afterwards is extraordinarily absurd. charles swift is a former judge advocate attorney and lieutenant commander in the united states navy. mr. swift, thank you very much for your time tonight. appreciate it. you re very welcome. if you were a congressman paying way below market rent for a swanky d.c. apartment and you were paying that way below market rent because your rent was subsidized by a secretive religious group, would you step up and defend your insultingly low rent and claim you re being victimized by anybody asking you about it?
and, yes, all foreign nationals, not foreign born, it s whether you re a citizen of a foreign country. do you agree with my characterization, although i apologize for mentioning the wrong convention, do you agree with the characterization that they are essentially normal regular and routine, this is not something that should jump out as a red flag because he was getting these visits? it s absolutely normal. the right has been absolutely recognized by the supreme court in several fairly historic cases in the last decade. and those visits go on around the united states every day. they also go on around the world where we visit our citizens with our consular officers. one congressman suggested he pay the united states back caused by the actions by this diplomat. how are these things normally handled? is there an international protocol for dealing with incidents like this? presuming, and i would assume he does, have diplomatic immunity, normally there s not a payback.
that works out to like 830 bucks a month, still incredibly cheap for a room in a fancy town house with meals and housekeeping. but other people who lived at c street or who live there now keep saying this. it s just this room. i just have this one room there. is it your understanding they have access to all the common space of this giant mansion too? yeah. there s a big, beautiful big screen tv down in the main common space, there s a beautiful dining room used for hosting formal banquets, there s a lovely breakfast nook, also used as a conference room. there s a beautiful kitchen. it s really a space that almost doubles as a conference center. and also doubles, frankly, as a hangout for washington congressman zach wamp, said this is the place to hang out, talk policy, watch sports. i recently spoke to a young woman, a young evangelical woman, thought she was going to do an internship in washington,