Clarksville, TN – The two-story gallery of the Customs House Museum will be filled with “The Words of Women” next month instead of the usual visual art.
“Each year I create an exhibit celebrating Women’s History Month. This time we are focusing on women writers”, says Terri Jordan, Exhibits Curator. This exhibit will be held March 2nd – May 6th. Participating writers were sent a vintage item to be used as the muse for their work.
Included in the exhibit are well known authors Helen Hemphill and June Hall McCash. Hailed as “a strong new voice in children’s literature” by Kirkus Reviews, Helen Hemphill’s novel Long Gone Daddy won the Teddy Award for young adult fiction from the Writers’ League of Texas and was named to the New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age.
June Hall McCash has been a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Education as well as the recipient of her university’s Distinguished Research Award (1996) and Career Achievement Award (2003) along with Agnes Scott College’s Outstanding Alumna Award (1996). She has served as chair of Humanities Tennessee and trustee of the Jekyll Island Foundation.
On March 17th, the museum will host “The Power of Women”, an inspirational and informative ticketed event for women on women’s issues. Guest speakers will include breast cancer survivor Teri Johnson. “My mother was just 51 when she died of breast cancer,” says Teri. “Her experience was what gave me the fight to insist on getting the tests I needed.” Teri had suffered from fibrous lumps in her breasts since she was 15 and was an advocate of self-breast exams. But because she had lost her mom at such a young age and because she had two young children of her own, Teri educated herself on the disease – In January, 2006, she got a bilateral mastectomy …complete breast removal. She was only 30.
There will be an exhibit opening on March 2nd from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, a writers’ panel discussion on April 14th, and an evening writers’ hour in the gallery on March 8th.
About the Customs House Museum
Located at the corner of Second Street and Commerce Street, the Customs House Museum is the second largest general museum in Tennessee. Regular museum hours are 10:00am to 5:00pm Tuesday through Saturday, and 1:00pm to 5:00pm on Sundays.
Adult admission is $7.00, Senior Citizens and College ID $5.00, Ages 6 to 18 $3.00, and under six is free.
For more information on above events contact Terri Jordan, Exhibits Curator, at 931.648.5780 or terri@customshousemuseum.org.
