Clarksville’s Customs House Museum July 2017 Exhibits and Activities
July 5, 2017
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is located in historic downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. Come explore an entire city block featuring large gallery spaces filled with fine art, science and history.
Some of the events in July at the Museum are: Eric Buechel: The Familiar, Tales & Rails Tuesdays, Art of the Staff, Reading Appalachia: Voices from Children’s Literature, Frank Morrison Live and Family Art Fridays.
Eric Buechel
Clarksville Students Take Part in Junior National Young Leaders Conference
July 28, 2014
Middle School Scholars to Walk in the Footsteps of U.S. Leaders
Washington, D.C. – Outstanding middle school students from across the United States took part in an extraordinary leadership development experience, the 2014 Junior National Young Leaders Conference (JrNYLC): Foundations of Leadership I, an Envision program.
The program provides a historical view of leadership and encourages young scholars to develop their own leadership skills and strategies for success in the 21st century.
(L to R) Kurstan Buck and Lexi Koon.
Gossett Family Endows New Scholarship at APSU
August 30, 2012
Clarksville, TN – One morning in the early 1930s, during the height of the Great Depression, a young man named Charles Bruno showed up at the Ford Motor Compnay looking for a job. A line of applicants stretched down the block, so Bruno and his brother crawled under a fence to get closer to the front door.
The company was looking for experienced welders. Bruno, the son of Italian immigrants, only had a seventh-grade education at the time, and he hardly knew what a welding rod looked like. But he had a new wife and a family to support, and his determination impressed the man in charge of hiring. He gave Bruno a job. [Read more]
Local Author Charlotte Marshall to speak about her book Mullings and Musings II at the Public Library October 1st
September 26, 2011
Clarksville, TN – Charlotte O. Marshall, frequent contributor to the Cumberland Lore section of the Leaf-Chronicle and local author will be speaking about her book, “Mullings and Musings II” in the alcove next to the glass meeting room at the rear of the library at 2:00pm on Saturday, October 1st, with a book signing afterwards. [Read more]
