Clarksville Living Magazine — October 2017

The October 2017 issue of Clarksville Living Magazine makes mammograms easier, plays the city's music history, and plans two ways out for fire safety.

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“Tips to Make Your Next Mammogram Easier” leads the Breast Cancer Awareness Month issue with reassuring, practical guidance that takes some of the anxiety out of a screening too many women put off.

“Clarksville's History of Music, Part 1” opens what would become a two-part series, digging into the city's rich musical heritage — the venues, the players and the moments that gave Clarksville its sound. It is exactly the kind of deep local-history feature the magazine's readers treasure.

For Fire Prevention Month, “Every Second Counts: Plan Two Ways Out” delivers potentially life-saving home-safety guidance, and “Wags n Wings: Family Fun Festival” previews a lively community event pairing pets and flight.

The health pages add flu-season advice with “What to Do if You Get the Flu,” and the issue rounds out with “Tree of Life,” “Mirror, Mirror,” “Wicked Candy Apples” for the season, and a candid resource on what to do if you happen to become the next widow.

Together the features balance women's health, local history and seasonal fun, a rich October number with something for nearly every reader.

The recurring departments and photo pages round out a rich October issue that has something for nearly every reader. Between the reassuring mammogram guidance, the deep dive into Clarksville's musical heritage, the life-saving fire-safety advice, and the seasonal fun of festivals and wicked candy apples, the number balances real substance with autumn delight. It is a fitting reflection of the magazine's range — willing to nudge a reader toward a screening that could save her life on one page and celebrate a family pet festival on the next — and a reminder of how much local history and local life a single issue can hold. The mammogram feature makes its case simply — an annual screening helps make sure you'll be there for life's most important moments — while “Every Second Counts” carries the year's national fire-prevention theme, and “Clarksville's History of Music” serves up a memorable anecdote about an opera diva said to have carved her initials into a hotel's grand pier mirror with a diamond ring.

Table of Contents

• Tips On Make Your Next Mammogram Easier (p. 6)
• Tree of Life (p. 8)
• Every Second Counts: Plan Two Ways Out (p. 12)
• Mirror, Mirror (p. 14)
• Wags n Wings: Family Fun Festival (p. 18)
• Clarksville’s History of Music Part 1 (p. 20)
• What To Do If You Get The Flu (p. 24)
• Floors and More (p. 26)
• What To Do If You Happen To Be The Next Widow (p. 28)
• Wicked Candy Apples (p. 30)
• Tips to Make Your Next Mammogram Easier (p. 4)

Regular departments

• The Fridge (p. 32)
• Network (p. 42)
• PetPix (p. 46)