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 10th 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.”
“The Road to 250: America’s Story” will have additional performances on Medical Developments on October 8th and Education in America on November 12th. The Spring Semester will see the final three staged performances on American Society on February 11th, American Culture on March 11th and America and the World on April 8th.
Each performance is followed by an opportunity for questions and answers and then refreshments in the lobby. All performances are free and open to the public.
June of 2026 will see an open house at the new Tennessee Wings of Liberty Military Museum at Fort Campbell. Specific dates are yet to be determined. These formal Semiquincentennial celebrations will conclude on July 1, 2026, with an elaborated, patriotic concert by The Cumberland Winds at the First Presbyterian Church, 213 Main Street in Clarksville, also free and open to the public.