Clarksville Arts & Heritage Development Council

Heritage - Local Writers Tour of Homes

The Arts and Heritage Council sponsors an annual tour of homes of historic interest.  Past tours have included homes of local authors who have achieved national prominence.  Among them are Robert Penn Warren’s boyhood home; Benfolly—home to novelist and literary critic Caroline Gordon and Fugitive poet Alan Tate; Woodstock—childhood home of Hearst sob sister and nationally syndicated advice columnist Dorothy Dix, and the antebellum home of short story author Tom Mabry. The 2009 tour will feature homes built by those connected with Clarksville’s tobacco heritage.