Clarksville’s Rivers and Spires Festival’s Sports Zone to range from APSU Athletics, Yoga to Sports Trivia
April 1, 2014
Clarksville, TN – The Rivers and Spires Festival has been bringing free family fun to Historic Downtown Clarksville for over a decade. And over the years, the Festival has been no stranger to changing up the attractions to make sure everyone is entertained.
This year, for the first time, the Festival is pleased to offer a zone geared especially for the sports enthusiast.
Downtown Clarksville Tennessee. (Bill Larson Clarksville Online)
2014 Asanbe Diversity Symposium returns to APSU on April 16th
April 1, 2014
Clarksville, TN – “Are you a subject or are you a citizen?” That was an important question for many Senegalese men during World War II, when they joined the Colonial French Army.
In their everyday lives, these individuals saw little difference between supporting the French Government and merely living within its colonial borders. But as soldiers, they quickly realized where they ranked in the government’s eyes. [Read more]
Clarksville’s Customs House Museum April 2014 Exhibits and Activities
March 31, 2014
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.
In the month of April, the Museum will feature Sessions with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, There’s No Place Like Oz, Sessions with Andy, The Fascinating Mr. Warhol: Photographs by Raeanne Rubenstein, Women’s History Month: Family and Family Ties: An Installation by Sher Fick, The Art of Peach McComb, Easter Parade, Let’s Find: Green, A Gallery Talk with Raeanne Rubenstein, Ladies Night, and Family Day Activity: Animals in Art & Literature.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz at the Customs House Museum through June 29th.
16-Year-Old Helps Austin Peay Math Jeopardy Team Win Second Place In Southeast Region
March 31, 2014
Clarksville, TN – David Zhang’s age seemed problematic. The 16-year-old Kenwood High School student was taking advantage of Austin Peay State University’s dual enrollment program, but instead of signing up for a couple of introductory college courses, he asked to enroll in the most advanced undergraduate mathematics classes offered by the University – differential equations and complex analysis.
“Complex analysis is the highest undergraduate course in the math department,” Dr. Ben Ntatin, APSU associate professor of mathematics, said. “I was scared to give him a waiver at first. But he’s easily the best student.”
Dodji Kuwonu, David Zhang and Benjamin D. Firth led the APSU Math Jeopardy Team to a second place win at the Mathematics Association of Mathematics south-east sectional annual meeting.
Jazz great Gregoire Maret to headline 53rd annual Mid-South Jazz Festival at APSU
March 28, 2014
Clarksville, TN – At 92, Toots Thielemans is considered the world’s greatest jazz harmonica musician, having played with luminaries such as Charlie Parker and Miles Davis.
In 2012, Thielemans made a guest appearance on 37-year-old Gregoire Maret’s self-titled debut solo album, and most music critics saw this as a passing of the baton to a new master of the jazz harmonica.
Gregoire Maret to perform at the 53rd Annual Jazz Festival at APSU.
Historian to discuss new view of Andrew Jackson at APSU on April 9th
March 26, 2014
Clarksville, TN – Many Americans view Andrew Jackson as a frontiersman who fought duels, killed Indians and stole another man’s wife. Historians have traditionally presented Jackson as a man who struggled to overcome obstacles and helped create a more democratic United States.
In his compelling new biography of Jackson published by LSU Press, historian Mark R. Cheathem argues for a reassessment of these long-held views, suggesting that in fact “Old Hickory” lived as an elite Southern gentleman.
Andrew Jackson
Esteemed biologist Hayes to speak at APSU April 7th
March 25, 2014
Clarksville, TN – Have you ever heard of atrazine? It’s a popular, but potent, weed-killer, and chances are, there are traces of this chemical contaminant in your body.
In the late 1990s, the agri-chemical giant Syngenta hired Dr. Tyrone Hayes, professor of integrative biology at the University of California at Berkley, to make sure atrazine was safe for the public. [Read more]
Rivers and Spires Adds New, Exciting Events to the 2014 Line Up
March 24, 2014
Clarksville, TN – For over a decade, the Rivers and Spires Festival has brought the streets of Historic Downtown Clarksville to life with a maze of family friendly activities, musical acts and one-of-a-kind entertainment. This April 24th-26th will be no different, and it will be bigger and better than ever.
This annual, must-attend event has so much music and free fun packed into the three days that it is mind blowing that it costs absolutely nothing for you and your family to get in.
Express Employment Clydesdales to be apart of this year’s Rivers and Spires Festival
Author Sue Culverhouse Speaks at the Woodward Library Society at APSU
March 22, 2014
Clarksville, TN – 
On the first day of spring, the Woodward Library Society held their much delayed Winter Program featuring author Sue Culverhouse, the author of Tennessee Literary Luminaries at the Woodward Library on the campus of Austin Peay State University. The program was originally scheduled to be held in February 2014, but was delayed due to inclement weather.
Author Sue Culverhouse speaking at the Woodward Library Society’s WInter Program
Gateway Chamber Orchestra to perform “Historic Seconds” concert at APSU on March 30th
March 21, 2014
Clarksville, TN – In the summer of 1802, Ludwig van Beethoven felt depressed. The famed German composer was going deaf, and, overcome by this reality, he isolated himself in the spa town of Heiligenstadt. He tried to distract himself by working on a new symphony, but by October, he still felt miserable.
“Little more and I would have put an end to my life – only art it was that withheld me,” he wrote in a gloomy letter to his brothers. “It seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon me to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence.”
Gateway Chamber Orchestra
