Editing Clarksville, Arkansas (section)

==Culture==
Clarksville is home to the Johnson County Peach Festival. Starting in 1938.  It is a nearly week long event (starts on a Tuesday and ends on Saturday) and attracts visitors from all over the country. Activities and events include Barbershop chorus, gospel music, good ol' home cookin, handmade arts and crafts, street dance, frog jumping contest, terrapin derby, greased pig chase, a 4-mile run, parade, jam and jelly bake-off and of course peach and peach cobbler eating contests. It all concludes with the crowning of Queen Elberta, Miss Arkansas Valley and Miss Teen Arkansas Valley pageants.

The Clarksville post office contains a mural, ''How Happy was the Occasion'', painted in 1941 by [[Mary May Purser]].<ref>[http://purserstudio.com/sBio.html Purser Studio: Biography of Stuart Purser], accessed January 2019</ref><ref>[https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/post-office-mural-clarksville-ar/ Living New Deal: Clarksville, Arkansas Post Office Mural], accessed January 2019.</ref>  Federally commissioned murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the [[Section of Painting and Sculpture]], later called the [[Section of Fine Arts]], of the [[United States Department of the Treasury|Treasury Department]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Arnesen |first=Eric |date=2007 |title=Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History |volume=1 |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |page=1540 |isbn=9780415968263}}</ref>