Geographers – See Eric’s note below on the exhibit at the East TN History Museum about Alvin York that utilized geography and GIS to document Alvin York in France.

MC

From: arnold <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, February 26, 2018 at 2:05 PM
To: "Camponovo, Michael" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: #SgtYork

There is an exhibition on Alvin York at the East Tennessee Museum of History on Gay Street through July 8.  It is well worth a visit.  It shows how researchers rediscovered the scene of York's WWI battle and used archaeology/ historic maps / gps / gis to explore the battlefield.  There is an extensive display of the work the researchers did and it includes the final terrain model they produced.  It is all very cool.  If any of your students are history buffs, they should definitely go see it.  There is a $5 admission.  (The museum also has extensive collections on East Tennessee including Davy Crockett's rifle, Betsy.)

http://www.easttnhistory.org/SgtYork

In the Footsteps of Sergeant York | East Tennessee ... www.easttnhistory.org Between 2006 and 2009, an international team of historians, archaeologists, and geographers traveled to France to rediscover and document where Fentress County-native ...

https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=sciaa_staffpub

Eric