Clarksville Greenway now has a New Parking Lot
Clarksville, TN – Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department has opened a new parking lot at the Pollard Road Trailhead of the Clarksville Greenway.
The popularity of the Clarksville Greenway has grown rapidly over the years, and the Pollard Road Trailhead is the most used access point.
The new lot will help alleviate the parking problems and will help visitors avoid parking alongside Pollard Road.
59 new spaces available at Clarksville Greenway’s Pollard Road Trailhead.
Clarksville Parks and Recreation says one week remains to enter Riverfest Virtual Talent Competition
Clarksville, TN – As the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic continues to have a widespread impact, the Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department is adapting the traditional three-day Riverfest celebration into nearly two weeks of in-person and virtual events.
The Riverfest Virtual Talent Competition is included in the lineup of events, and only one week remains for contest entries.
Participants have until August 26th, 2020 to complete an online application that includes a video of their performance that is no more than four minutes in length.
Customs House Museum celebrates Women’s Suffrage, Twenty Years of Cumberland Furniture Guild
Clarksville, TN – August has been a month of exciting change exhibit-wise at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center. Two new, highly anticipated exhibitions are now up for the public to visit: The Power of Women: Celebrating the Suffrage Movement and Practice Makes Perfect: Twenty Years of the Cumberland Furniture Guild.
This month the country will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage, and Clarksville has plenty of history to share on the subject.
Practice Makes Perfect: Twenty Years of the Cumberland Furniture Guild
Austin Peay State University professor Somaditya Banerjee’s new book examines making of modern physics in colonial India
Clarksville, TN – Dr. Somaditya “Soma” Banerjee, an assistant professor at the Austin Peay State University (APSU) Department of History and Philosophy, has published a book that examines how modern physics developed in colonial India early in the 20th century.
Austin Peay State University professor Somaditya Banerjee poses outside the new Ann R. Ross Bookstore with his book. (APSU)
APSU creative writing professor Barry Kitterman’s “30 Poets, 30 Poems” celebrates the people, places of Clarksville
Clarksville, TN – “Poetry and place are the oldest of friends,” said Barry Kitterman, Austin Peay State University (APSU) creative writing professor and author of Stories from San Joaquin and The Baker’s Boy, in his effusive introduction to his 30 Poets, 30 Poems Clarksville anthology.
This collection is a love letter to all things Clarksville: the people, the places and the memorialization of this marriage through art.
Roxy Regional Theatre’s School of the Arts now accepting Registrations
Clarksville, TN – Budding young performers and adults interested in honing their craft or discovering a new passion will have a creative outlet this fall, with the return of the Roxy Regional Theatre’s School of the Arts educational programming.
In March, the School of the Arts had to be suspended and the students’ production of Bye Bye Birdie Jr. cancelled, due to recommendations from state and local officials regarding the escalating COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic and in the interest of the safety of the young performers, patrons and staff.
Roxy Regional Theatre School of the Arts students performing in 2019’s production of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, Jr.
Austin Peay State University professor John Ray writes two YouTube mini-musicals during pandemic
Clarksville, TN – An Austin Peay State University (APSU) musical theatre voice professor wrote two “mini-musicals” during the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic. Both musicals are available on YouTube.
Dr. John Ray – who recently joined APSU as assistant professor in musical theatre voice after serving as visiting professor last year – said he wrote the mini-musicals “as the pandemic worsened and performance opportunities dwindled.”
Screen capture of “La Quarantena.” (APSU)
Roxy Regional Theatre enters phased reopening in September with Planters Bank Presents… Film Series
Clarksville, TN – Following a six-month hiatus, Clarksville’s oldest professional theatre is slated to begin a phased reopening this September with a host of movie favorites in the Roxy Regional Theatre’s popular Planters Bank Presents… Film Series.
The Roxy Regional Theatre theatre went dark in mid-March before being able to open its production of “A Streetcar Named Desire”, due to recommendations from state and local officials regarding the escalating COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic and in the interest of the safety of patrons, performers and staff.
Roxy Regional Theatre
Austin Peay State University faculty edits Diary that provides glimpse of Clarksville during Civil War
Clarksville, TN – In the mid-1980s, an old store ledger was found inside a local smokehouse. At first glance, it seemed like little more than trash, but then someone opened the yellowed, water-stained pages and read surreal accounts of Clarksville during the Civil War.
“Clarksville is almost depopulated,” the ledger recorded. “All the escaped soldiers have been ordered to the main army via Clarksville before the Yankees get in. I ripped the stripes off a young man’s coat over at Uncle W’m’s this evening that he might not be detected on his journey. Once I enjoyed sewing them, but now I take them off as willingly.”
Austin Peay State University professor of history Dr. Minoa Uffelman holds the Diary of Serepta Jordan. (APSU)
Clarksville to dedicate ‘Tennessee Triumph’ Suffrage Statue on August 15th
Clarksville, TN – Tennessee holds a special place in passing the 19th Amendment into law, extending voting rights to women.
We were the final state needed for ratification, and our legislators came through with a two-vote victory margin on August 18th, 1920, with the law becoming effective eight days later.
Steering Committee members Elizabeth Black, Khandra Smalley and Rosalind Kurita stand with the Tennessee Triumph maquette.
