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Exploring Chattanooga’s award-winning Tennessee Aquarium and Chattanooga Experimental Whiskey Distillery

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Tennessee Aquarium is set riverside in the heart of downtown Chattanooga & Trinity Hale visits with correspondent Tom Wilmer at the trendsetting Chattanooga Experimental Distillery
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Tennessee Aquarium is set riverside in the heart of downtown Chattanooga & Trinity Hale (left) visits with correspondent Tom Wilmer at the trendsetting Chattanooga Experimental Distillery

Join Thom Benson at the Tennessee Aquarium in the heart of downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee for a discovery of one of America’s foremost aquariums. enjoy up-close visits with penguins to river otters, turtles and tropical butterflies. The Aquarium’s research arm shares insights about restoring freshwater ecosystems and teaching kids and adults alike the importance of a healthy ecosystem.

Next up is a fascinating visit with Trinity Hale at the Chattanooga Whiskey Experimental Distillery. This is the place to sip unique, award-winning “Tennessee high malt” bourbon whiskeys.

Funding for Journeys of Discovery provided by Nashville's Big Back Yard economic initiative focused on rural communities in the southwest quarter of Tennessee and the Shoals Region of Northern Alabama.

You are invited to subscribe to the Lowell Thomas Award-winning podcast travel show, Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer, featured on the NPR Podcast DirectoryiHeartRadioApple Podcast.

Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.