Clarksville Celebrates Independence Day at McGregor Park
Clarksville, TN – Well over 20,000 people jammed the banks of the Cumberland River as the City of Clarksville held their annual Independence Day Celebration last night. This celebration of patriotism is one of the most popular events hosted by the city each year.
This years celebration was sponsored by the City of Clarksville, Aetna Insurance and U.S. Bank.
Fireworks explode over Clarksville on July 3rd
Clarksville’s Independence Day Celebration tomorrow night at McGregor Park
Clarksville, TN – Come out tomorrow night to McGregor Park as the City of Clarksville and Aetna Insurance celebrate our nation’s independence this year with the fifth annual Independence Day Celebration.
The event will be filled with food, fun and entertainment for the entire family. Activities begin at 6:00pm. [Read more]
Clarksville Writers’ Conference 2012: Renaissance Woman Alice Randall Describes Ada’s Rules
Clarksville, TN – Harvard-educated Alice Randall is as close to being a Renaissance woman as you’re going to meet on the streets of Nashville. Writer-in-residence for Vanderbilt University, she is the author of The Wind Done Gone, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, Rebel Yell and her latest book, Ada’s Rules. The first African-American woman to write a number one country song, she also wrote a video of the year, worked on multiple Johnny Cash videos, and produced a pilot for a prime time drama on CBS (featuring ex-wives of country stars).
Ada’s Rules hits head on what Alice Randall feels is the dominant civil rights issue of the first quarter of the 21st century—health disparity, specifically the issue of being overweight that leads to diabetes in one in four African-American women over 55. Diabetes leads to many women suffering amputation and/or kidney failure. Alice Randall is on a crusade to help women recognize this problem and find ways to overcome it.
Alice Randall at the 2012 Clarksville Writer’s Conference
Clarksville Writers’ Conference Learns about Creative Nonfiction from Keven McQueen
Clarksville, TN – Keven McQueen is not your average author with an elevated impression of himself. Here’s what he has to say about his life as he introduces himself on his web page, “I have degrees in English from Berea College and Eastern Kentucky University. I have been an instructor of composition and literature in the Department of English and Theatre at EKU since 1989. English is my wife but history is my mistress, especially politically incorrect history which presents uncomfortable challenges to what “everyone knows” or assumes to be true.”
He goes on to add, “For a while I worked as a night watchman at a funeral home, a job that dovetailed well with my sense of humor….I am the author of five books: a biography of a nineteenth-century Kentucky emancipationist, Cassius M. Clay, Freedom’s Champion; two books featuring biographies of bizarre and eccentric figures from Kentucky history, Offbeat Kentuckians and More Offbeat Kentuckians; a hybrid of the Kentucky history and true crime genres, Murder in Old Kentucky, and the brand-new Kentucky Book of the Dead, which concerns ghosts, giant skeletons, premature burial, monsters and other strangeness. I have another Kentucky-based true crime book on the way, Cruelly Murdered.”
Keven McQueen at the 2012 Clarksville Writer’s Conference
Clarksville Parks and Recreation Report for July 1st, 2012
Clarksville, TN – The weekly Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department Recreation Report provides Clarksvillians with a glimpse at the activities and events that are available from the Parks and Recreation Department for them to enjoy together as a family.
Community Centers will be CLOSED Wednesday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day.
This weeks highlights include:
- Annual Independence Day Celebration
- NEW Youth Kickball League
- Yoga in the Park – now thru August 3rd!
- Free showing of “A League of Their Own”
- *NEW* Kayaking Clinics
- July is National Parks and Recreation Month
- Try Scuba Class
Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department and YMCA of Clarksville to continue new Yoga in the Park series
Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department and the Clarksville YMCA have seen such success with the new Yoga in the Park series, classes will continue through August 3rd (excluding Wednesday, July 4th)!
Yoga in the Park is a free, morning yoga class instructed by trained YMCA instructors each Wednesday and Friday beginning May 16th. Classes take place from 6:00am to 7:00am on the stage behind the As the River Flows museum at McGregor Park, located at 640 North Riverside Drive. [Read more]
Dunbar Cave State Park Events for July 1st through July 7th
Clarksville, TN – Dunbar Cave State Natural Area has been a State Park since 1973. The cave and its surrounding 110 acres have considerable scenic, natural and historical significance. The entrance offered shelter to prehistoric Native Americans as far back as 10,000 years.
Dunbar Cave State Natural Area will present many nature programs this summer.
Upcoming events include: Human Sundial, Bats, Night Hike, Trees are Terrific, History of Dunbar Cave and so much more!
Free screening of “A League of Their Own” at Movies in the Park July 7th
Clarksville, TN – Join Clarksville Parks and Recreation Saturday, July 7th, 2012 at Heritage Park Soccer fields for this month’s Movies in the Park event, featuring the 1992 American comedy-drama- “A League of Their Own”- rated PG.
Parental supervision is strongly recommended due to language and sexual content.
A League of Their Own at Movies in the Park July 7th
Registration extended for Clarksville Parks and Recreation’s first-ever Youth Recreation League
Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville Parks and Recreation’s first-ever Youth Kickball League is extending registration through July 6th!
Participants can register at the Parks and Recreation Main office as well as online at recpro.cityofclarksville.com. [Read more]
Famed young adult author Nnedi Okorafor to read at APSU on July 20th
Clarksville, TN – The author Nnedi Okorafor doesn’t write stories that feel tired or predictable. Her books, which mash up literary genres from African literature to science fiction and fantasy, stand out for their originality and their abilities to take young readers on unexpected journeys.
“There’s more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics,” the celebrated author Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in a recent review. [Read more]
