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Clarksville Family Magazine — August 2007

The August 2007 issue of Clarksville Family Magazine explores arts and heritage, times the back-to-school shopping to the sales-tax holiday, and takes the stage with Grease.

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The issue leaned into the local arts, with an Arts & Heritage feature by Meredith Gildrie exploring the cultural life of the community — the kind of thoughtful arts writing that would become a magazine hallmark.

A spotlight on Grease — the beloved musical with a book by Jim Jacobs and music and lyrics by Warren Casey — celebrated a local theatrical production, giving readers a preview of the show and the community talent bringing it to life.

Timed to the season, the issue walked families through Tennessee's Sales Tax Holiday, which begins at 12:01 a.m. on the first Friday in August each year and runs through the following Sunday night — a practical, money-saving guide for the back-to-school shopping rush, complete with the details of what qualified and what didn't.

Health and education coverage round out the issue, including a Teacher feature spotlighting local educators, along with the community calendar of late-summer events.

Read as part of the archive, the August number shows a first-year magazine already championing the local arts and theater while looking after the practical needs of families — helping parents save on the back-to-school haul even as it celebrated the community's creative life, the balance of the useful and the cultural that would define it for years.

Table of Contents

  • Arts (p. 6)
  • Health Calendar (p. 10)
  • Health The Fridge (p. 12)
  • Health (p. 13)
  • Teacher (p. 18)
  • Barbee’s Studio of Photography (p. 2)
  • Betsy’s Quiltin’ Barn (p. 31)
  • Beyond the Books (p. 19)
  • Bless This Child (p. 9)
  • Cheeseburger Charley’s (p. 9)
  • Custom Curb Design (p. 30)
  • Daphne’s Portrait Design (p. 11)
  • Focused Imaging (p. 31)
  • Fundom Kids (p. 15)
  • Governor’s Square Mall (p. 22)
  • Locust Run Stables (p. 30)
  • Mom & Me (p. 13)
  • The MOM Team (p. 16)
  • MWR Concerts Under the Stars (p. 23)
  • MWR Fall Fest (p. 24)
  • One Church (p. 32)
  • Plum Maternity (p. 9)
  • Riverfest (p. 3)
  • Sango Montessori School (p. 30)
  • Andrea Sommermeyer - Legacy Mortgage (p. 17)
  • Suzan Yarbrough - Arbonne (p. 30)

Regular departments

  • Family (p. 14)

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