ESPN Tailgate Tour comes to Clarksville
September 20, 2011
Clarksville, TN – Daymar Institute and Charter Media proudly invite the community to come out and join in the football festivities as they bring the ESPN Tailgate tour to Clarksville for the first time ever!
The ESPN Football Tailgate Tour travels throughout the Charter East Division making stops throughout Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana.
ESPN Tailgate Tour
Memorial Day History
May 30, 2011
From the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Washington, D.C. – Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5th, 1868, the head of an organization of Union veterans — the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) — established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan declared that Decoration Day should be observed on May 30th. It is believed that date was chosen because flowers would be in bloom all over the country.
The first large observance was held that year at Arlington National Cemetery, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. [Read more]
