Clarksville Living Magazine — July 2021

The July 2021 issue of Clarksville Living Magazine maps a Tennessee summer bucket list, guides parents through public-school alternatives, and turns up the volume for Hot August Blues.

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The cover feature is a celebration of summer's return. After a year of canceled concerts, festivals and events, the writer argues, we all deserve to experience the highlights of a Clarksville summer in 2021 — and the “Tennessee Summer Bucket List” delivers a season's worth of ideas to make up for lost time.

“Your Guide to Clarksville's Many Public School Alternatives” is a substantive education feature for families weighing their options — a practical survey of the choices available beyond the traditional zoned school, timely for parents rethinking education after a disrupted year.

The music pages preview one of the season's biggest events: the lineup for this year's Hot August Blues Festival at Liberty Park, set for August 27–28, features more than a dozen bands headlined by The Legendary Shack Shakers and Clarksville's own Nightmasters — a return to live music the whole region had been waiting for.

“Nailed It: We Teach, You Create” spotlights a hands-on local creative business built around guided projects, and “Vintage Clarksville: Camp Campbell” reaches back into the military history that shaped the area — the wartime origins of the post that became Fort Campbell.

From a bucket list to a school guide to a blues festival, the issue captures a community throwing itself back into summer, balancing forward-looking fun with a look at the history underneath it all.

The month's recurring departments — the calendar, the recipes and the photo pages — round out an issue built for a community determined to reclaim the summer the pandemic had stolen. From live music to school choices to the history of Fort Campbell, it balances celebration and substance in equal measure, capturing Clarksville in full mid-summer stride.

Table of Contents

• Tennessee Summer Bucket List (p. 6)
• Your Guide To Local Public School Alternatives (p. 10)
• Summertime Blues Music: The Nightmasters (p. 14)
• Nailed It: We Teach, You Create (p. 16)
• Vintage Clarksville: Camp Campbell (p. 18)

Regular departments

• Calendar Of Events (p. 20)
• Network (p. 28)