Clarksville Living Magazine — October 2022

The October 2022 issue of Clarksville Living Magazine honors a nonprofit born from a family's loss, gets the Tri-Star right, and turns to the rewards of fall gardening.

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The issue's most moving story is Caleb Cares. Just over three years earlier, Clarksville teenager Caleb Slate was lost to suicide, and from that grief his family built a nonprofit — the Caleb Cares Foundation — to reach other young people and the community around them. The feature honors both the loss and the work it set in motion — a family turning the worst kind of pain into ongoing help for others, so that another family might be spared the same grief.

“Small Businesses in Crisis” takes stock of the pressures facing Clarksville's local shops and owners, giving voice to the entrepreneurs navigating a difficult stretch — the kind of grounded economic coverage that sits close to the community it serves.

“Tri-Star Trouble” digs into a detail most Tennesseans never think about: the precise positioning of the state's three-star design. Whether on a poster or a t-shirt, precision matters — each of the three stars is oriented with a point toward the center, and getting that orientation right is the difference between a proper Tri-Star and a near miss.

For the season, “Fall Gardening Chores & Rewards” reframes October as the true beginning of the horticultural year, the moment the garden draws to a graceful close and the work of preparing for next year quietly begins. A companion DIY feature shows how to build fall harvest décor made to last all season long.

The issue moves from profound loss to civic detail to the reassuring rhythm of the garden, holding a family's grief and the small satisfactions of a seasonal craft project within the same pages — the range that has always defined a Clarksville Living October.

Table of Contents

• Small Businesses In Crisis (p. 10)
• Diy: Fall Harvest Decor To Last All Season Long! (p. 12)
• Tri-Star Trouble (p. 16)
• Fall Gardening Chores & Rewards (p. 18)

Regular departments

• Calendar Of Events (p. 22)