Clarksville Living Magazine — August 2021
The August 2021 Clarksville Living Magazine weighs the case for weight-loss surgery, celebrates a music store that has served the city for thirty years, and slices into summer's favorite melon.
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“The Skinny on Weight-Loss Surgery” took a clear-eyed look at a subject many approach with hesitation. Surgery not only helps shed pounds, the feature explained, but also delivers real health benefits — a meaningful alternative for the many people who have spent years cycling through fad diets only to end up back where they started.
“The Sound of (Mary's) Music” was a love letter to a local landmark. If you're a musician in Clarksville-Montgomery County, the feature noted, you've probably spent time in Mary's Music — a store that has served the community for almost thirty years, anchoring a whole local music scene. The food pages had fun with watermelon — slice it, dice it, cube it, juice it — while “Vintage Clarksville: The L&N Railroad” traced the rail line that helped build the city. “Red River Clay” spotlighted the local ceramics studio, and “Pet Corner: The Dog Days of Summer” offered seasonal guidance.
The recurring departments round out a characteristically balanced late-summer number — a serious health decision, a beloved music store, a summer melon and a railroad that built the city, equal parts useful and warm.
The issue's Red River Clay feature spotlighted the local ceramics studio and the community of makers who gather around its wheels and kilns — a hands-on creative outlet that, like Mary's Music down the road, gives the city's artists a physical home. Between the studio, the thirty-year-old music store and a summer watermelon sliced, diced and juiced a dozen ways, the August number balanced a serious look at weight-loss surgery with the small, tactile pleasures of a Clarksville summer.
Table of Contents
- The Skinny On Weight Loss Surgery (p. 6)
- Watermelon: Slice It. Dice It Cube It. Juice It (p. 8)
- Vintage Clarksville: The L&N Railroad (p. 12)
- Red River Clay (p. 15)
- The Sound Of (Mary'S) Music (p. 16)
- Pet Corner: The Dog Day S Of Summer (p. 18)
Regular Departments
- Calendar Of Events (p. 20)
- Network (p. 28)
