Topic: Downtown for the Holidays

Clarksville’s Christmas calendar of events announced

November 10, 2008 |

Christmas on the Cumberland, Clarksville annual celebration of the Christmas holidays, will run from November 25, 2008, to January 1, 2009  at McGregor Park. For more details, visit Christmas on the Cumberland online.

Downtown for the Holidays will take place on December 6th in Downtown Clarksville with the following events:

• Jingle Bell Jog 9 a.m.
• 49th Annual Clarksville Christmas Parade 5 p.m.  Extended shopping hours with downtown businesses, live music and family entertainment immediately following the Clarksville Christmas Parade
• Grace Church of the Nazarene Nativity Scene, December 12th & 13th 6-8 p.m. at McGregor Park

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Christmas Parade delights thousands

By Christine Anne Piesyk | December 2, 2007 |

Thousands of families lined the streets of downtown Clarksville Saturday for the annual Christmas Parade, which this year was staged at sunset and coincided with Downtown for the Holidays event of shopping and entertainment.

Santa, in his brilliant red suit with white fur trim, returned in his sleigh, and paused to listen to children’s wishes at Courthouse Square.

This year’s theme was the Sights and Sounds of Christmas. The Parade kicked off at 5 p.m. and included a host of city officials, civic, business, cultural and spiritual organizations, school bands, color guards, Clarksville’s mounted police and motorcycle units, regional fire departments and their decorated trucks, and a number of floats. The parade included several floats with Fort Campbell troops. The Roxy Theater contingent, celebrating 25 years of productions, appeared with a horse-drawn carriage and the costumed cast of the current production of Charles Dickens’ Victorian Christmas play, Chimes.

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Christmas Parade brings Santa to Clarksville

By Christine Anne Piesyk | November 29, 2007 |

Santa Claus is coming to town…

Though he made an appearance at the recent lighting ceremony for Christmas on the Cumberland, he’ll be back for another visit with Clarksville’s children this weekend.

Montgomery County and the City of Clarksville will co-host Downtown for the Holidays on Saturday, December 1, immediately following Clarksville’s 48th Annual Christmas Parade. The parade kicks off at 5 p.m.

This is a family-friendly event you won’t want to miss with musical performances by the local R&B band, Eclipse. For more family fun, there will be free carriage rides downtown, and children can take home a hand-crafted toy made by the Tuckasee Woodturners and decorate a cookie with the Montgomery County Home Extension Office at Public Square. Visitors can also stop by the Gas & Water Department’s Open House on the first floor at City Hall for free hot chocolate. «Read the rest of this article»

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Christmas on the Cumberland brightens Riverwalk with a million holiday lights

By Christine Anne Piesyk | November 8, 2007 |

Along the Riverfront, workers are busy stringing more than one million lights through the trees, preparing to illuminate Christmas on the Cumberland, Clarksville’s walk-thru holiday light display.

The holiday display, a ‘new’ city tradition, opens November 20, 2007 with a lighting ceremony and entertainment at Clarksville’s McGregor Park RiverWalk on Riverside Drive. This year’s theme is The Spirit of Christmas.

Several new scenes have been added to Christmas on the Cumberland this year making it bigger and brighter than ever. The new montages include a Santa train, a gingerbread park, a snow globe, a giant sea-monster, a fishing scene, Santa flying an airplane, and Santa water skiing. The most striking display will be a lighted, 20-foot Screaming Eagle Emblem custom made to represent Ft. Campbell’s 101st Airborne Division, which currently has hundred of its soldiers deployed in Iraq.

The Grand Opening Celebration for Christmas on the Cumberland will begin with holiday entertainment performed by The Beagles starting at 6:00 p.m., with Mayor Johnny Piper officially lighting up the park during a 6:30 p.m. lighting ceremony.

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