Enter To Win A Chance To Meet Kellie Pickler and Plumb at Rivers and Spires

Clarksville, TN – The Rivers and Spires Festival invites you to enter to win a chance to meet country music and reality star Kellie Pickler on Saturday, April 16th, 2016 before she takes the Public Square stage.

For your chance to win, go online to www.riversandspires.com/win . Submit your information to be entered to win the opportunity to meet the country artist, including two meet and greet tickets and a free night’s stay at area accommodations.

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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.

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