Alice Randall to Keynote Sixth Annual Clarksville Writers Conference
May 20, 2010
The Clarksville Arts & Heritage Development Council is pleased to announce the Sixth Annual Clarksville Writers Conference, being held July 28th – 31st, 2010, on the campus of Austin Peay State University.
This year’s conference opens with a new two-day tour centered around Clarksville’s rich architectural heritage. Participants will tour structures which tell stories of a community that began in the late 1700’s as a river city, weathered the Civil War, and later became a world center for the dark-fired tobacco trade.
We are very honored to have as this year’s keynote speaker ALICE RANDALL, award-winning songwriter and author of Rebel Yell, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, and The Wind Done Gone, the New York Times bestselling parody of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind. Randall, a Harvard graduate and current Writer-In-Residence at Vanderbilt University, will speak at the conference banquet at the Clarksville Country Club on the evening of Friday, July 30th. [Read more]
Friends of Fort Defiance held annual “March to the past”
April 20, 2010
The Friends of Fort Defiance held their sixth annual march to the past event last Sunday near Port Royal State Park. The event which was timed to coincide with the Rivers and Spires festival held in Clarksville, TN is designed to educate attendees about what life was like in 19th century, especially the civil war era.
This event was somewhat unique as it mixed both Civilian and Military re-enactors. Representatives from both the Confederacy and Union were on hand. Demonstrations ranged from carding wool and spinning thread, Civil War era medicine, to live fire demonstrations of field artillery by Porter’s Battery.
Porter's Battery conducts a canon firing at the March to the Past event in Port Royal
2009 Friends of Fort Defiance Living History Weekend – 3
August 29, 2009
Living History Weekend August 29-30, 2009. Camp opened to the public 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Demonstrations of 19th century civilian and military life including quilting, medicine, children’s toys, games and cartridge rolling. Cannons fired every hour.
A video used to be embedded here but the service that it was hosted on has shut down.2009 Friends of Fort Defiance Living History Weekend – 2
August 29, 2009
Living History Weekend August 29-30, 2009. Camp opened to the public 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Demonstrations of 19th century civilian and military life including quilting, medicine, children’s toys, games and cartridge rolling. Cannons fired every hour.
A video used to be embedded here but the service that it was hosted on has shut down.2009 Friends of Fort Defiance Living History Weekend – 1
August 29, 2009
Living History Weekend August 29-30, 2009. Camp opened to the public 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Demonstrations of 19th century civilian and military life including quilting, medicine, children’s toys, games and cartridge rolling. Cannons fired every hour.
A video used to be embedded here but the service that it was hosted on has shut down.
