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September 15 -17 Living History event at the Alvin C.York Historic Park, Pall Mall. September 17, 2:30 - 4pm “World War I Centennial Event: Over There,” War Memorial Building, Dickson, Tennessee, featuring Amelie de Gaulle, Lt. General Keith Huber, Jerry V. Smith, Esq., and Dr. Michael E. Birdwell, Tennessee Great War Commission. September 7 - November 30 In the Footsteps of Sergeant York Exhibit, 6th Cavalry Museum, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. September 23, 9-4pm Middle Tennessee Engine and Tractor Association Meeting in conjunction with TTU Agriculture Department’s Fall FunFest in Cookeville, Hyder Burks Facility, TTU, featuring Alvin C.York’s restored tractor and representa- tives of the Tennessee Great War Commission. SEPTEMBER, 2017 The Yanks Are Coming! Tennesseeans in World War I The exhibit reflects Tennessee’s role in the war that came to be known as the “Great War.” Tennessee supplied more than 61,000 men to the Selective Service and 19,000 volunteers. Six Tennesseans would receive the Medal of Honor for their service. The exhibit shares stories of soldiers such as Zephaniah Porter Broom of Inskip in Knox County, who exemplified the state’s volunteer spirit. He served with the 3rd Tennessee Infantry National Guard from 1910 until 1915. He enlisted as a private with the Canadian Army’s 70th Battal- ion in October 1915. While in the field the following June, he joined the ranks of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. In France, he was wounded by a machine gun bullet near the Somme in September 1916, and was returned to Canada. On October 1, 1917, he joined the U.S. Army and was assigned to Company C, 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division and trained at Camp Sevier, South Carolina. The 117th fought near Ypres, Belgium in 1918 and in several engagements on the Hinden- burg Line. Broom was honorably discharged in April 1919. He died in 1979 at the age of 89 and is buried near Knoxville. Remembering the World War I Doughboy: Tennesseeans in World War I The exhibit highlights the history behind the War Memorial Building which was built in 1925 as a result of Tennessee’s efforts to preserve the memory of those who fought and died in World War I. Online Exhibition: Tennesseans in World War I Honoring the Tennesseans who serviced during the war both home and abroad.. The First World War touched each of Tennessee’s ninety-five counties in different ways. This exhibit offers an example of wartime experiences for each county. OCTOBER, 2017 October 6 - March 1 World War I and the Great Migration, exhibit at Fisk University’s Carl Van Vechten Gallery; It features works by Romare Bearden, Malvin Gray Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, William Edouard Scott, Albert E. Smith, and Henry Ossawa Tanner, curated by Nikoo Paydar. October 6 -November 30 Fisk University and the Student Army Training Corps, World War I, 1917-1918, exhibit at Fisk University’s Special Collections on the 2nd floor of the John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, curated by Nikoo Paydar. October 6-January 21 “World War I and American Art,” Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, a limited exhibit ap- pearing only in Philadelphia, New York and Nash- ville, featuring John Singer Sargent’s epic canvas “Gassed.” TENNESEE GREAT WAR COMMISSION THE WAR TO END ALL WARS, 1914 - 1918 PRICE ONE CENT WWI CENTENARY BIG EVENTS COMING FOR THE FALL OF ‘17 E X T R A ! E X T R A ! E X T R A ! September 20 -25, 1917: A revised British strategy begins at Ypres designed to wear down the Germans. It features a series of intensive, narrowly focused artillery and troop attacks with limited objectives, to be launched every six days. The first such attack, along the Menin Road to- ward Gheluvelt, produces a gain of about 1,000 yards with 22,000 British and Australian casual- ties. Subsequent attacks yield similar results. THE BATTLE OF MENIN ROAD RIDGE Tennessee State Museum Exhibits Zephaniah Porter Broom Lt. General Keith Huber, WWI Centennial Event, Dickson, TN October–November World War I Film Series Chattanooga
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September 15 -17Living History event at the Alvin C. York Historic Park, Pall Mall.
September 17, 2:30 - 4pm“World War I Centennial Event: Over There,” War Memorial Building, Dickson, Tennessee, featuring Amelie de Gaulle, Lt. General Keith Huber, Jerry V. Smith, Esq., and Dr. Michael E. Birdwell, Tennessee Great War Commission.
September 7 - November 30In the Footsteps of Sergeant York Exhibit, 6th Cavalry Museum, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
September 23, 9-4pmMiddle Tennessee Engine and Tractor Association Meeting in conjunction with TTU Agriculture Department’s Fall FunFest in Cookeville, Hyder Burks Facility, TTU, featuring Alvin C. York’s restored tractor and representa-tives of the Tennessee Great War Commission.
SEPTEMBER, 2017
The Yanks Are Coming! Tennesseeans in World War I
The exhibit reflects Tennessee’s role in the war that came to be known as the “Great War.” Tennessee supplied more than 61,000 men to the Selective Service and 19,000 volunteers. Six Tennesseans would receive the Medal of Honor for their service.
The exhibit shares stories of soldiers such as Zephaniah Porter Broom of Inskip in Knox County, who exemplified the state’s volunteer spirit. He served with the 3rd Tennessee Infantry National Guard from 1910 until 1915. He enlisted as a private with the Canadian Army’s 70th Battal-ion in October 1915. While in the field the following June, he joined the ranks of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. In France, he was wounded by a machine gun bullet near the Somme in September 1916, and was returned to Canada. On October 1, 1917, he joined the U.S. Army and was assigned to Company C, 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division and trained at Camp Sevier, South Carolina. The 117th fought near Ypres, Belgium in 1918 and in several engagements on the Hinden-burg Line. Broom was honorably discharged in April 1919. He died in 1979 at the age of 89 and is buried near Knoxville.
Remembering the World War I Doughboy: Tennesseeans in World War I
The exhibit highlights the history behind the War Memorial Building which was built in 1925 as a result of Tennessee’s efforts to preserve the memory of those who fought and died in World War I.
Online Exhibition: Tennesseans in World War I
Honoring the Tennesseans who serviced during the war both home and abroad.. The First World War touched each of Tennessee’s ninety-five counties in different ways. This exhibit offers an example of wartime experiences for each county.
OCTOBER, 2017
October 6 - March 1World War I and the Great Migration, exhibit at Fisk University’s Carl Van Vechten Gallery; It features works by Romare Bearden, Malvin Gray Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, William Edouard Scott, Albert E. Smith, and Henry Ossawa Tanner, curated by Nikoo Paydar.
October 6 -November 30Fisk University and the Student Army Training Corps, World War I, 1917-1918, exhibit at Fisk University’s Special Collections on the 2nd floor of the John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, curated by Nikoo Paydar.
October 6-January 21“World War I and American Art,” Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, a limited exhibit ap-pearing only in Philadelphia, New York and Nash-ville, featuring John Singer Sargent’s epic canvas “Gassed.”
TENNESEE GREAT WAR COMMISSIONTHE WAR TO END ALL WARS, 1914 - 1918 PRICE ONE CENTWWI CENTENARY
BIG EVENTS COMINGFOR THE FALL OF ‘17
E X T R A ! E X T R A ! E X T R A !
September 20 -25, 1917: A revised British strategy begins at Ypres designed to wear down the Germans. It features a series of intensive, narrowly focused artillery and troop attacks with limited objectives, to be launched every six days. The first such attack, along the Menin Road to-ward Gheluvelt, produces a gain of about 1,000 yards with 22,000 British and Australian casual-ties. Subsequent attacks yield similar results.
THE BATTLE OF MENIN ROAD RIDGE
Tennessee State Museum Exhibits
Zephaniah Porter Broom
Lt. General Keith Huber, WWI Centennial Event, Dickson, TN
October–November World War I Film Series
Chattanooga
TGWC, FALL OF 2017 EVENTS CALENDAR p.2
OCTOBER (Continued)October 6 “Mr. Sargent Goes to War,” presented by Richard Ormand, CBE, Frist Center for the Visual Arts Audi-torium, 6:30pm.
October 9“Behold the Mask: World War I, Plastic Surgery and the Modern Beauty Revolution,” presented by David M. Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Fine Art, Wake Forest University, Vanderbilt Univer-sity, Cohen Memorial Hall, Room 323 (1220 21st Ave. South), Nashville.
October - NovemberSpecial Exhibit, “WWI Trench Art,” Vanderbilt Fine
Art Gallery, Nashville, curated by Margaret Walker and featuring the collection of Dr. David McCoy
Month of OctoberTennessee and the Great War exhibit, Tennessee State Library and Archives, in Nashville.
October 899th anniversary of Alvin C. York’s battle near Chatel-Chehery that resulted in his Medal of Honor, Alvin C. York State Historic Park, Pall Mall. 1-2pm, “Alvin York’s Battle Map and The Fight in the Argonne,” and 2-3pm “The Face of the Enemy: A Tour of the Trenches.”
October 20 - 21“The Music of World War I,” concert narrated by Michael Lasser, with performances by Cindy Miller and Alan Jones, 6:30 p.m., Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville.
October 29Campground Cemetery, Martha Washington, Ten-nessee, 2:00 p.m., 100th Anniversary of George N. Ashburn’s wounds suffered near Luneville, France. On that date, 100 years ago, Ashburn fell from wounds suffered to his head, making him the first American soldier wounded in the First World War.
November 1-2“Over There and Over Here: Digitization of World War I artifacts, Chattanooga Bicenten-nial Library; Wednesday, 2 - 6:30 p.m., Thursday: 9am-12pm.
November 1“Tennessee’s African American Medical Corps,” presented by Linda Wynn, Erlanger Hospital Public Conference Room, 10:30am - 1pm.
November 1World War I Poetry Readings, sponsored by the John Ross Chapter of the DAR, Chattanooga Downtown Public Library Conference Room, 6:00-8:00, p.m.
November 2James McGrath Morris, “An End to the Age of Innocence: How the Great War Forever Changed American Literature,” an evening with James McGrath Morris, author of The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and Friend-ship Made and Lost in War, 6:30 p.m. UTC Signal Mountain Room.
November 2-3Display of French and American World War I Posters open for Browsing from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. George Connor Special Collections Reading Room (4th Floor, Room 439) UTC Library, 600 Douglas Street, Chattanooga.
November 3Teachers Workshop at GPS.
November 3Living History, GPS.
November 3A Question-and-Answer Session with Ernest Hemingway Biographer James McGrath Morris, Speaking on A Farewell to Arms, 11-11:50 a.m., Southern Writers Room (4th Floor) UTC Library, 600 Douglas Street Chattanooga.
November 3(TBD) Historic Walking Tour of Chattanooga and the Great War, Maury Nicely.
November 4Living History, GPS, Chattanooga.
November 4World War I Symposium, GPS, Chattanooga, 9am to 4pm. Featuring presentations by Pat Gang, Will Thomas, Michael Birdwell and others.
November 4A Symposium on Graduate Student Research on the Great War, East Tennessee Historical Society Auditorium, Knoxville, for additional information contact Robert Rennie, coordinator of the event, [email protected]
November 5Living History and World War I commemoration at the Williamson County Archives, Franklin, Ten-nessee, 1- 4pm.
November 10-12Sergeant Alvin C. York Historic Park, Pall Mall, Tennessee. Living history, period music,vintage planes and vehicles, screening of Sergeant York and guest speakers.
December 8 Screening of Sergeant York, Frist Center for the Visual Arts Auditorium, 6:30-9:00 p.m., with com-mentary by Dr. Michael Birdwell and Deborah York.
For Additional Information, contact: Dr. Michael E. Birdwell
Chair, Tennessee Great War CommissionTTU P.O. Box 5064, Cookeville, TN 38505,
(931) 372-3356 [email protected]
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
Display of French and American WWI PostersNovember 2 - 3
November 13Free public screening of Valor: The Story of Kif-fin Yates Rockwell and the Lafayette Escadrille, a film by Dr. Marc McClure, 7:00 p.m. E.S.T., Blount County Public Library, 508 North Cusick St., Maryville, Tennessee.
For additional information contact Jackie Glenn, Tennessee Great War Commission, (865) 380-4295, or [email protected].
WW1 Reenactors at Sergeant C. York Historic ParkVeterans’ Day
Kiffin Tates Rockwell
