Clarksville Parks and Recreation Report for May 10th, 2015
May 10, 2015
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.
This weeks highlights include: Yoga in the Park,Fun with Fido, Clarksville Downtown Market, Medical Display, Liberty Live, and Marital Arts.
APSU’s revamped career services connecting students and alumni with employers
May 9, 2015
Clarksville, TN – For years, the Austin Peay State University Career Services Office was seen as little more than a resume critiquing service. Students would occasionally stop by the small rooms inside the Morgan University Center to hear that pink paper and a Comic Sans font didn’t help with their job prospects.
The office’s small staff and operating budget didn’t leave it much room for anything else.
Austin Peay State University’s career services mission is to assist students in making the successful transition from academia to the world of work by providing them with opportunities to engage in meaningful activities. (Adison Hardyway, APSU)
Clarksville Parks and Recreation kicked off Warrior Week with Backroad Brigade, Little Texas Concert Friday night
May 9, 2015
Clarksville, TN – Clarksville’s Warrior Week started Friday night, May 8th, with a free concert at Liberty Park. The event was in honor of all military personnel and their families.
There was plenty of food and drink like hotdogs, Mexican food, sodas and lemonade for purchase.
Little Texas jammed at Clarksville’s Warrior Week concert Friday night.
Beachaven Winery’s kicks off “Jazz on the Lawn” concert series tonight, May 9th
May 9, 2015
Clarksville, TN – Beachaven Winery concert series ‘Jazz on the Lawn’ starts tonight, Saturday, May 9th featuring music by the Bicho Brothers Band. The music starts at 6:30pm and goes until 9:30pm.
The Bicho Brothers Band is a Classic Rock cover band based in Nashville, TN.
The Bicho Brothers Band
Clarksville’s Red River Sirens vs. Marietta Derby Darlins Saturday, May 16th
May 8, 2015
Clarksville, TN – The Red River Sirens next home bout is Saturday, May 16th against the Marietta Derby Darlins. Come out and catch some awesome derby action and help out our local community.
The Sirens will be taking item donations for the Montgomery County Friends of the Shelter. A portion of the proceeds of the game will also be going to the shelter.
The Red River Sirens are a non profit organization. They volunteer in the community and help out other non profits.
Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts awards Summer Research Fellowships
May 8, 2015
Clarksville, TN – For more than 25 years, the Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts has been providing students with a one-of-a-kind experience in visual arts, music, creative writing, theatre and dance.
To further the Center’s goals of fostering the next generation of creative thinkers, a trio of students was recently honored with the Center’s first-ever Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
APSU students Megan Oelgoetz, Benjamin McCormack and Conor Scruton were chosen for the inaugural fellowship, each presenting a paper outlining their passions and, if selected, the topics they would choose to explore during their fellowship. [Read more]
APSU professor’s “lifetime work” published, identifies state plants
May 8, 2015
Clarksville, TN – In January 1967, while The Rolling Stones performed on The Ed Sullivan Show and a blizzard dropped 23 inches of snow across Chicago, a young Austin Peay State University botany professor began a project that would take him nearly 50 years to complete.
Dr. Edward Chester, his suit then smelling of chalkboard dust and his dark hair pomaded in the style of Jerry Lee Lewis, sat at his desk that winter to write a comprehensive guide identifying all of Tennessee’s 2,878 vascular plants.
Dr. Edward Chester served as a contributor and primary editor for the new textbook, “Guide to the Vascular Plants of Tennessee.” (Beth Liggett/APSU)
Clarksville Parks and Recreation to hold Warrior Week Concert and Car, Truck, & Bike Show this Weekend, May 8th and 9th
May 8, 2015
Don’t miss the fun events this weekend in honor of Warrior Week
Clarksville, TN – Each year, the Military Affairs Committee of the Clarksville Chamber of Commerce organizes Warrior Week to honor all military personnel and their families.
The City of Clarksville is proud to show their support on Friday, May 8th, by hosting a free concert featuring award-winning, Country artists Little Texas!
APSU’s Osvaldo Di Paolo explores blending of Hispanic literary genres in new book
May 8, 2015
Clarksville, TN – Fictional literature has long shined a light on the times in which we live. In North America, genres like dystopia and science fiction have served as mirrors for the ills plaguing modern day society.
In Spanish literature, the genres of hardboiled, or “novela negra,” and Gothic literature have played a similarly important role – each symbolically exploring, among other things, the criminal and societal dangers in rapidly growing major South American cities such as Mexico City, Bogota and Buenos Aires.
APSU Associate Professor Dr. Osvaldo Di Paolo.
Exploration at the Customs House Museum
May 7, 2015
Clarksville, TN – Artist Ed Nash brings his large-scale abstracts to the Customs House Museum for the month of May in the exhibit Ed Nash: Exploration.
The acrylic paintings seep with mysterious shapes and textured layers of neutral hues. They are at once both earthy and industrial.
“Adjudicate” by Ed Nash.
