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Topic: Arts and Heritage Development Council
Sold out, Tobacco Heritage Homes Tour opens annual Writers Conference
By Turner McCullough Jr. | July 24, 2009 | 
The Historic Homes Tour which opens the Clarksville Writers’ Conference sells out, setting a record for this annual Arts and Heritage Development Council event.
Historic Homes Tour participants leaving the Frech-Buck House at 102 Union Street.
Two days of presentations and visits of historic homes of the area raises the bar. Despite the rainy weather, the fifth annual Clarksville Writer’s Conference opened to a warm and welcoming flourish with its Historic Homes Tour. This year’s historic homes tour is completely sold out, a first for the Arts and Heritage Development Council annual event that opens its annual writers’ conference.
Attendees assembled at the Riverview Inn parking lot and were transported to the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center. Sign-in, registration and name tag pick-up were accomplished in the lobby. Dr. Howard Winn gave a lecture with slide show and power point presentation on the Tobacco Heritage of Clarksville. «Read the rest of this article»
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“Meet the Photographer” Event
April 18, 2009 |
On Friday, April 24th, David Farmerie will be holding a lecture and discussion in the museum auditorium at 7 pm. This event, sponsored in part by the Arts and Heritage Development Council, is free to the public. The subject of David’s talk will be his Seven Deadly Sins series. Farmerie says,” When I was asked to create this series I was virtually unaware of the Seven Deadly Sins other than a vague recollection from my youth while attending Catholic school. After researching, I was amazed at what I discovered. They were not the oppressive doctrine that I was expecting. In fact, they seemed to have a profound place in our society today…and that was the beginning of the conceptualization”. «Read the rest of this article»
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Customs House offers “Cultural Calendar 2009″
December 6, 2008 |
The “Cultural Calendar 2009″ is now available at the Seasons Gift Shop in the Customs House Museum for only $5 each. They feature photographs of 14 Clarksville artists work, and a host of wonderful Clarksville events listed for each month, with witty sayings, and clever quotes from famous folks. They are in color and on a lovely coated heavy stock.
The proceeds go to the Arts and Heritage Development Council in Clarksville. These calendars are very popular, and make lovely Christmas gifts that last the entire year.
This coming Monday, the Seasons Gift Shop (in Museum) has a 20% off sale on any one item. The sale runs from 11 AM to 2 PM.
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Writer’s Conference: John Seigenthaler Sr. offers “A Word on Words”
By Turner McCullough Jr. | July 26, 2008 |
Famed writer, editor, publisher and 1st Amendment advocate encourages audience, “Everyone has at least one story to tell!”
The Clarksville Country Club Dining Room was the host site for this year’s Writers Conference Buffet Dinner, which featured John Seigenthal Sr. as their keynote speaker.
In listing his many life achievements, one must acknowledge his 43 years as an award-winning journalist of Nashville’s The Tennessean being editor, publisher and CEO; his tenure as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; serving as the founding editorial director of USA Today; and being an administrative assistant to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and chief negotiator with the governor of Alabama during the Freedom Rides. In 1991, he founded the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, whose mission is creating national discussion, dialogue and debate about First Amendment rights and values. Seigenthaler is also the author of the 2004 biography of American President James K. Polk. He currently hosts a weekly book-review program, “A Word on Words” on Nashville public television station WNPT. «Read the rest of this article»
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