Clarksville Living Magazine — April 2019
The April 2019 Clarksville Living Magazine celebrates the magazine's 13th year with a cover story on Jimi Hendrix's Clarksville roots, a Sango farm feeding the community, and the art of pyrography.
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The cover story was the draw. Before he was a rock legend, Private James Marshall Hendrix was stationed at Fort Campbell and lived in Clarksville in the early 1960s, playing in a local band called the King Kasuals. Seattle has every right to claim its hometown son, the feature allowed, but it was here — alongside his best friend and brother-in-arms Billy Cox — that Jimi honed his skills and began developing his craft. By 1964 he had found his way to New York's Harlem, just another stop on a journey that would change popular music forever.
A feature on The Food Initiative followed its mission to grow healthy food, empower lives and build community. What began as a small garden plot in the Sango area grew into a twelve-acre farm with fresh produce and chickens; a portion is sold at the Downtown Market and much is donated to hunger-relief organizations, with the nonprofit hiring high-school students to work its sustainable garden. Christina Chittenden's Q&A with Big Brothers Big Sisters explained the mentoring nonprofit's focus on stable, caring adult relationships, and “The Art of Pyrography” spotlighted the craft of wood-burning.
The recurring departments round out an anniversary issue that captures exactly why the magazine has lasted thirteen years: an ability to find the extraordinary in its own backyard — and a reminder that some of the best stories in music history began right here along the Cumberland.
The anniversary issue wore its hometown pride openly. As one contributor put it, the many great artists and musicians in the area are among the most positive things about Clarksville — a sentiment a number built around Jimi Hendrix's early local years, a farm feeding its neighbors, and the quiet craft of wood-burning was well placed to make.
Table of Contents
- Jimi Hendrix: Clarksville Roots (p. 8)
- The Food Initiative (p. 10)
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Clarksville (p. 14)
- The Art of Pyrography (p. 16)
