CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – The Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library hosted its first Summer Fest on Saturday at the North Branch. The event celebrated the conclusion of the annual Summer Reading Program.

The free event featured indoor and outdoor games, crafts, face painting and music activities for families. Artists from the Country Music Hall of Fame demonstrated instruments before inviting children to participate in an interactive instrument petting zoo. Food trucks were also on site.

Young boy in a blue shirt runs toward a black bowling ball among large inflatable pins on a sunny grassy field at a kids' event.
Woman in a floral dress demonstrates two guitars to a classroom of students.
Teacher or presenter speaking to a diverse audience seated in rows in a bright conference room with hanging paper decorations outside the windows.
Boy in a black shirt and blue shorts swings a baseball bat in a sunny grassy park, with a hoop and stroller in the background.
Smiling young boy in an olive-green shirt sits beside a woman in an orange shirt, holding hands as they wait with a line of seated attendees in a public space.
Senior woman writing with a green pencil at a craft table, surrounded by colored pencils and supplies.
Young girl in a neon-green shirt colors at a table while an adult leans over to help her in a bright classroom.
Children and adults seated at long tables in a bright classroom, painting and drawing with supplies nearby outside light.
Child wearing sunglasses crouches with a black bowling ball on a grassy lawn beside white inflatable bowling pins with red stripes on the right.
Children sit at a long table coloring with crayons while papers and artwork are scattered around a bright classroom workshop.
Close-up of a hand coloring a Read-a-Saurus bookmark with a green pencil on a light wood desk
Girl wearing a cap and headphones sits at a table, drawing with a green pencil among colored pencils and art supplies.
Group of kids playing water games on a sunny day in a park, supervised by adults near a blue canopy.
A boy tosses a ring in a lawn game at an outdoor community event with a blue canopy and people in the background.

Amanda Taylor, Youth Public Services Associate, said the event was a new and exciting way to celebrate the kids who completed the library’s summer reading program.

Laura Hoffman, Youth Services Supervisor, said the event was held during the final week of the summer reading program and followed the library’s Touch the Truck event, which kicked off the season earlier this summer.

“We are celebrating the end of a very successful summer reading program,” Hoffman said. “This is our last week and we kicked it off at the beginning of the summer with our Touch the Truck event. We wanted to bring the end of summer reading celebration over to our new north branch.”

Hoffman said the goal was to provide free activities for families while giving children an opportunity to explore music through the Country Music Hall of Fame’s visiting artists.