Honey Baked Ham Company to Celebrate Clarksville Grand Opening with Free Sandwiches for a Year Giveaway

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Celebrate the Holidays with Gateway Chamber Orchestra’s Winter Baroque Concert on November 24th

Clarksville, TN – The Gateway Chamber Orchestra (GCO) is proud to announce its upcoming concert, Winter Baroque. This marks the 13th year of this annual concert featuring the Gateway Chorale as well as the Clarksville Children’s Chorus.

GCO has captivated audiences with artistry and passion for over a decade, quickly emerging as one of the leading chamber orchestras in the country.

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Honey Baked Ham Company® Brings Delicious Hams and Family-Friendly Dining to Clarksville

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Clarksville Area Chamber of Commerce January 2022 Events, Announcements

Clarksville, TN – On Wednesday, January 5th, 2022, the Clarksville Area Chamber of Commerce will hold the monthly Clarksville Young Professionals (CYP) meeting at noon, featuring FBI Special Agents Matt Foster, Nathan Opie, Brad Smith, and PAO Elizabeth Clement-Webb; sponsored by Union Home Mortgage.

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Clarksville-Montgomery County Arts and Heritage Development presents Lifetime Achievement Awards to Dan Hanley, Mark Holleman

Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville-Montgomery County Arts and Heritage Development Council (AHDC) presented lifetime achievement awards to two Clarksvillians who have made outstanding contributions to the community’s artistic and historic heritage.

During Saturday’s Flying High celebration for Customs House Museum and Cultural Center, AHDC presented the lifetime achievement in art award posthumously to Dan Hanley and the lifetime achievement in heritage award to Mark Holleman. Jodi Hanley received the award for her husband, who had been notified earlier of the honor.

 

Dan Hanley’s Artistic Achievements

Dan Hanley steadily applied his creative abilities over many years as a designer and builder of homes and residential communities. In recent years, he turned his full attention to his life-long interest in painting—an interest he had kept alive and active for some 40 years since he graduated college with a degree in art & business administration. 

Hanley’s work is represented in many private and corporate collections. His paintings and home designs have received a number of professional awards. His original artworks have brought prices in excess of $20,000. 

Hanley served on Clarksville’s Public Arts Commission and worked regularly in support of the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center.  Following the devastating 1999 tornado that struck Clarksville, he served on the Mayor’s Recovery Task Force, chairing the Design Review Board and the Design Standards Development Committee.

 

 

His community contributions continued his family heritage, going back to his great grandfather’s emigration from Ireland to Clarksville in the late 1860s. His great grandfather, grandfather, father, and Dan Hanley himself have all left their mark on many of Clarksville’s architectural treasures.

Hanley lived what he called a “Tom Sawyer” boyhood in his parent’s home near the Cumberland River.  He often drew from this background for his subjects, describing his paintings as representations of “… a neighborhood of ordinary folks, unaware that they were living extraordinary lives, in extraordinary times—unwittingly heroic in their struggles to provide for families and build a community, making themselves matter.”

Mark Holleman’s Heritage Contributions

While Hanley’s family was influential in shaping Clarksville’s architectural landscape, Mark Holleman has been busy preserving and enhancing it. It is evident that Holleman loves Clarksville’s heritage. And he has used this love to keep the city’s history alive in a number of creative ways.

He has used public art to bring our history into the present. Holleman worked with Main Street Clarksville to spearhead the creation and installation of a statue of “John Montgomery,” who, in 1784, purchased land at the confluence of the Cumberland and Red rivers and is credited with founding Clarksville. That group, along with the Leaf-Chronicle, commissioned the “Morning After” sculpture to remember the devastating tornado that swept through downtown in 1999.

Then working with a number of generous donors, Holleman raised funds and provided the creative vision for the Frank Sutton statue that is such a popular photo spot on Franklin Street. Holleman is quick to point out that the creation and installation of these three sculptures commemorating Clarksville’s past citizens and events resulted from the work and donations of many. AHDC recognized his persistence in moving them forward.

Holleman has made sure we will remember the streetcar days of Clarksville when he purchased a trolley car to take folks around town. He even preserved some of the streetcar track that was being removed from Franklin Street and installed it in his Riverside office.

Holleman and his wife Ricki have preserved one of the lovely homes that date from the 1920s and ’30s and line Madison Street. He takes photos to mark Clarksville’s current history and shares them with many folks around town. Visitors to the St. Bethlehem Coldwell Bankers office can see many of his photos along with artifacts from the Courthouse, Arlington Hotel, the Roxy, and Baker and Dowdy Barbershop.

Clarksville Area Chamber of Commerce August 2021 Events, Announcements

Clarksville, TN – On Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 the Chamber will hold its monthly Clarksville Young Professionals meeting at noon, at 25 Jefferson Street, Suite T, sponsored by Union Home Mortgage, featuring guest speaker Rich Holladay, the newly appointed Executive Director of Leadership Clarksville.

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Clarksville Artist Scene will host Meet and Greet, June 10th

Clarksville, TN – Clarksville Artist Scene will hold its first Meet and Greet for local artists to gather, provide mutual support and explore opportunities to collaborate.

The event will be held Thursday, June 10th from 5:00pm-6:00pm at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore at 404 Madison Street in Downtown Clarksville
Organizer Jackie Lewis says the meeting is open to artists in all mediums. “Whether you’re a musician, a visual artist, a writer, an actor/actress, or any other form of art, you are welcome to join us. This is a chance to unite the creative community of Clarksville.”

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Alexis Goines’ Allstate Insurance becomes Clarksville-Montgomery County Green certified

Montgomery County, TN – The Clarksville-Montgomery County Green Certification Program celebrated its newest member organization on January 12th with a green ribbon cutting. Alexis Goines’ Allstate Insurance office is the 133rd organization in Montgomery County to become Green Certified.

Alexis Goines is an avid recycler at home and upon opening her Allstate office in 2017 she wanted to continue her sustainability practices at work.

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Clarksville brewery aims to raise funds for local nonprofits through ‘Ale-truism’

King’s Bluff Brewery is donating a portion of proceeds to Habitat for Humanity and other local nonprofits.

Clarksville, TN – Thanks to the generosity of King’s Bluff Brewery (KBB), Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County, TN will now benefit from funds raised by a new beer on tap at the local gathering spot.

The new brew, known as the Hometown Honey Golden Ale, is part of KBB’s ‘Ale-truism’ program.

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Arts for Hearts Clarksville to host Supply Drive for Art in November

Clarksville, TN – Give artfully this November to Arts for Hearts, a program providing free art classes and workshops throughout the Clarksville area.

It is officially Fall and the season of caring and giving is fast approaching. Now is the perfect time to give back to the community by volunteering, giving or hosting supply drives to support your favorite local nonprofits.

Arts for Hearts in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity Restore and Eagle’s Wing Ministries will host a “Hearts Need Art” supply drive from November 9th-22nd.

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