Clarksville Living Magazine — June 2021

The June 2021 issue of Clarksville Living Magazine revives the Southern care package, packs boxes of hope at a North Second Street warehouse, and traces Austin Peay from college to university.

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The issue leads with a warm meditation on the Southern care package. The writer recalls childhood boxes carefully assembled by family members — a ritual grown rare as technology took over — and, while putting one together for an old friend living far away, wonders what to include and whether it will survive the trip: will the cookies crumble, will the local soap melt, does soda count as an explosive? The answer is a look at the subscription-box services that take the guesswork out of sending local Southern gifts.

In the Giving Back pages, a warehouse on North Second Street is where hope is literally packed into boxes through the YAPaks program: the boxes are delivered to clients of DCS and CMCSS, veterans in transition and homeless persons across the community.

A companion feature updates Project Transformation Tennessee, which through the upended summer of 2020 — modified work schedules, child care and stay-at-home orders — pivoted to meal and supply pickup rather than let the pandemic dampen its mission to help children throughout the state.

The “Vintage Clarksville” column turns to Austin Peay history, tracing generations of change on the downtown site: the school's renaming to Austin Peay State College by act of the Tennessee Legislature in 1943, the later authority to confer master's degrees, the approval of associate degrees in 1968, and the grant of university status effective September 1, 1967.

A urology-care feature and a profile of The Clarksville Collection round out an issue that moves from a thoughtful gift to hands-on charity to the roots of the city's university — the range that defines a Clarksville Living summer number.

Together the features move from a thoughtful gift to hands-on charity to the deep roots of the city's university, with a health feature and a local-business profile rounding out the mix. It is a warm, wide-ranging summer number that looks outward to friends far away and inward to the neighbors and institutions that hold the community together.

Table of Contents

• Urology Care (p. 6)
• Southern Subscription Boxes (p. 8)
• Hope Happens with YAPaks (p. 14)
• Project Transformation: Update (p. 18)
• Vintage Clarksville: APSU History (p. 20)
• The Clarksville Collection (p. 22)