CLARKSVILLE, TN − The Road to 250, our community’s two-year-long celebration of the Semiquincentennial (America’s 250th birthday) is about to launch its second year. The story will resume on September 10 at 4:30 p.m. on APSU’s Mabry Stage.
Scientific Developments will be the topic, and the narrator will be Dr. Phil Kemmerly, APSU professor emeritus of geology. There will be “guest appearances” by Benjamin Franklin, Union General Geoffrey Weitzel, Albert Einstein and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Road to 250 organizer Dr. Dewey Browder noted, “Together, they will lead us through two and a half centuries of world-changing inventions and their adoption by American entrepreneurs as this country marched forward with ever greater success becoming the world leader scientifically, economically, politically and militarily as well as the champion for freedom-loving people everywhere.”…