Clarksville Living Magazine — October 2016
The October 2016 issue of Clarksville Living Magazine welcomes Gigi's Cupcakes, rounds up Halloween happenings, and fuels kids' brains for school.
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The cover feature celebrates the arrival of Gigi's Cupcakes in Clarksville, welcoming the popular bakery to town — sweet news for local dessert lovers and a look at a growing business the community was eager to embrace.
“Halloween Events Around Clarksville” rounds up the season's spooky fun, giving families a guide to the trick-or-treats, festivals and frights filling the October calendar.
“Hail and Farewell, Good Friends” strikes a more reflective note, honoring people and moments worth remembering, in the bittersweet spirit the phrase carries in a military community.
The health pages help parents fuel young minds with “Brain-Powering Breakfast and Lunch Options Your Kids Will” love, practical nutrition guidance for the school year, alongside the recurring departments and photo pages that capture Clarksville in the heart of fall.
The recurring departments and photo pages round out an October issue that balances sweet arrivals, seasonal fun and heartfelt remembrance. A beloved cupcake bakery coming to town, a guide to the month's Halloween happenings, and a tender farewell to good friends all share the same pages, while the brain-fueling nutrition coverage keeps the school year in view. It is the magazine's range in miniature — able to celebrate a new business, map out a family's trick-or-treat plans, and honor those worth remembering all in a single issue — capturing a Clarksville autumn in all its bittersweet, sugar-dusted fullness as the leaves begin to turn. “Hail and Farewell” carries a particular resonance in a Fort Campbell town, where friends and neighbors are forever arriving and departing with the rhythm of military life, and where a warm goodbye is a familiar and necessary art. Between the sweetness of a new bakery, the fun of the season, and that quiet farewell, the issue captures the full emotional range of a military-community autumn — celebration and loss woven together, as they so often are here. The Gigi's Cupcakes feature is a delight of specifics: signature swirl frosting on freshly baked cupcakes in flavors ranging from green tea and ginger to seasonal favorites, with a chocolate-ganache option the owner calls her personal favorite even as Wedding Cake remains the best seller — the story of a business that, the feature notes, faced challenges bigger than any storefront, including the owner giving birth to her daughter as she birthed the shop.
Table of Contents
- Gigi's Cupcakes Arrives in Clarksville (p. 6)
- Hail and Farewell Good Friends (p. 16)
- Halloween Events Around Clarksville (p. 24)
- Brain-Powering Breakfast and Lunch Options Your Kids Will (p. 32)
Regular departments
- Giving Back (p. 12)
- Spotlight (p. 20)
- Candid Clarksville (p. 34)
- FT CAMPBELL Families (p. 35)
- Network (p. 36)
- Fridge (p. 46)