Clarksville Living Magazine — May 2020
The May 2020 Clarksville Living Magazine adopts graduating seniors robbed of a normal spring, salutes undercover heroes at APSU, and tells one Clarksville woman's COVID-19 survival story.
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“Adopt a Senior” answered a heartbreak of the spring of 2020: high-school and college seniors losing the milestones of their final year to the pandemic. The feature introduced adopted seniors like Gavin D., a student at the Academy of Media Arts and Technology, as the community rallied to celebrate a class denied its ceremonies.
“Undercover Heroes at APSU” spotlighted the people at Austin Peay working quietly behind the scenes to keep the university running. “Keep Your Distance” put the moment in global perspective — about one-third of the world's population was stuck indoors under some form of lockdown. The issue's most personal story was “Defeating COVID-19”: on Thursday, March 19, Sabrina Bostain of Clarksville received the call confirming she had the virus, and the feature followed her illness and recovery — a reminder that the pandemic's statistics were made of neighbors.
The recurring departments round out an issue defined by neighborliness under lockdown — a community determined to celebrate its graduates, thank its unseen workers, and stand beside a neighbor through recovery, some of the magazine's most affecting work.
“Adopt a Senior” put a face to the class of 2020's stolen spring. The writer's own adopted senior was Gavin D., who attended the Academy of Media Arts and Technology at Rossview High School and celebrated his eighteenth birthday in quarantine. His years of hard work had paid off: he'd been accepted to his dream school, the Savannah College of Art and Design, to pursue a BA in animation that fall — one bright future among a class denied the ceremonies that were supposed to mark it.
Table of Contents
- Adopt a Senior (p. 6)
- Undercover Heroes at APSU (p. 8)
- Keep Your Distance (p. 12)
- Defeating Covid-19 (p. 14)
- Local Eats (p. 16)
- Pet Corner: (p. 18)
- Hooray for CHCA! (p. 20)
Regular Departments
- Petpix (p. 19)
- Calendar (p. 24)
- Network (p. 28)
