Clarksville Family Magazine — November 2014
The November 2014 Clarksville Family Magazine profiles a father-and-son Civitan duo and their decades of service to people with developmental disabilities.
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The cover feature by Taylor Lieberstein profiled a rare situation: a father and son serving together as leaders of one of the community's oldest Civitan clubs. Since the 1950s, Civitan has carried a special emphasis on helping people with developmental disabilities, and the club has been one of the cause's major supporters — a legacy of service the feature honored through the two generations carrying it forward.
The profile captured what makes Civitan's work enduring: a commitment passed from one generation to the next, and a decades-long focus on some of the community's most vulnerable members — the kind of quiet, sustained service that rarely makes headlines but shapes countless lives. “Clyde and Earl's Excellent Adventure” added a lighter, story-driven feature, and a seasonal poem brought a reflective note.
The health pages and recurring departments round out a November number that leads with service and gratitude — a reminder that the strongest community institutions are often sustained not by grand gestures but by families who show up, year after year, for the neighbors who need them most. That quiet constancy is exactly what the season of thanks is meant to celebrate.
Tucked into the issue was “Clyde and Earl's Excellent Adventure,” a whimsical road-trip yarn starring two bickering birds. Earl insists he did his stretches; Clyde isn't buying it — “Remember Alabama last year?” — and the two spar over a half-remembered campground, the smell of graham crackers, and whose fault the last delay really was, Earl pecking at his tail feathers and angling to leave on time. It is the kind of light, character-driven storytelling the magazine liked to set beside its weightier features, giving younger readers a laugh alongside the number's tribute to Civitan's decades of service.
Table of Contents
- Poem (p. 45)
- Clyde and Earl's Excellent Adventure (p. 46)
Regular Departments
- Spotlight (p. 48)
- The Fridge (p. 50)
- Family (p. 52)
