Sgt. Alvin C. York General Store

Tennessee Department of Tourist Development Features Sgt. York Places and Events

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http://tnvacation.com/vendors/sgt-alvin-c-york-general-store-visitor-center/

Tennessee History for Kids- Featuring Sgt. York

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http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/places/york_historic_park

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Diary of Sgt. York $5

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52-page reproduction of the diary of Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and World War I hero Sgt. Alvin C. York. The diary tells in his own words of military career. He kept the diary from the time he arrived in Europe until his return home. Photos and other documents included. Just reprinted in black and white print on ivory paper by Sgt. York Patriotic Foundation. Proceeds help fund non-profit visitor center at Sgt. York State Historic Park in Pall Mall. Diary is $5 plus $3 shipping/handling. Contact yorkgeneralstore@gmail.com, or YGS, Box 100, Pall Mall, TN 38577 or call 931-879-3657 to order by phone using credit card.

York Grist Mill featured at Cheekwood

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York Grist Mill is among the two dozen buildings featured in a special exhibit through Dec. 31, 2011, at Cheekwood Arts and Gardens in Nashville. The outdoor exhibition called “Trains! Tennessee in G” is taking its visitors on a trip across the State of Tennessee and exploring its fascinating history through the state's most famous landmarks. Seven trains are running all day in the model garden railroad along lines. The exhibit’s incredible architecture, landscapes and realistic effects are fascinating.
Each building has been intricately handcrafted using natural materials, including twigs, bark, leaves, acorns and pebbles. More than 2,500 tiny trees, shrubs, groundcovers and flowering plants in 250 varieties create the landscape for the train, complete with a waterfall. The display uses G-scale trains – models created many times smaller than full-size locomotives. The trains are constructed of brass, stainless steel and plastic, and they specially designed to safely operate in rain, snow or other wet conditions.

Sgt. York Cultural Arts & Heritage Celebration a Success

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Art, music, food and history were all part of the Sgt. York Cultural Arts and Heritage Celebration, a free event held May 7 at the Sgt. Alvin C. York State Historic Park in Pall Mall.
Sponsored by the non-profit Sergeant York Patriotic Foundation (SYPF) and funded in part by an Arts Build Communities grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission, the event featured craftsmen and artisans demonstrating skills that would have been commonly engaged in throughout the Wolf River Valley and Cumberland Plateau during Sgt. Alvin C. York’s lifetime.
“Many of these skills are now preserved as arts,” said York General Store General Manager Sarah Voiles, coordinator for the event. “We were proud to showcase an impressive list of Tennessee artists and craftsman demonstrating and discussing their talents throughout the day as well as making their creations available for purchase.”
In addition to the arts, the Celebration offered World War I displays of artifacts, interpreters in period attire, a live, online genealogical research booth, book signings by local authors and tours of Sgt. York’s home, farm, mill, Bible School, nature trail and burial site.
Sgt. York’s three surviving children were present throughout the day to meet visitors and answer questions about their father. World War I military artifacts and other period pieces were presented and discussed by York Park Ranger Alison Vick from her extensive collection of historic artifacts. Mark Thompson demonstrated black powder shooting.
Presenting genealogical information was Bruce E. York, creator of York's Fentress County, Tenn., genealogy database. He shared information collected during 55 years of research, containing more than 301,000 names of deceased and living persons connected to the Cumberland Plateau.
Dressed in the appropriate uniform, SYPF advisory board member Joe Barkley assumed the persona of a World War I sergeant in the First Division.
The Fentress County Historical Society’s booth featured publications and displays about the history of the region.
Author and lecturer Dr. Calvin Dickinson discussed his new book, Soldiers, Spies and Spartans, which highlights the heroic efforts of children and women in Tennessee during the Civil War. The book is available for purchase at York General Store.

See Sgt. York and hear him speak

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If you want to see and hear Sgt. York, this is a wonderful video created at the time of his death in 1964 as a newsreel.

Click here:
(SGT YORK IS DEAD) - British Pathe

Upper Cumberland Arts Alliance Partnering with York General Store

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http://tennesseeuppercumberlandart.blogspot.com/2011/04/partnership-with-sgt-york-foundation-in.html

Contact sypfexecutiveassistant@gmail.com for registration or other information.

You are invited to visit York's home.

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Click the link below for a video of Sgt. York's three surviving children, his nephew and his daughter-in-law discussing Pall Mall and Sgt. York's home, mill, grave, store and farm.

http://www.sgtyork.org/video.html

Enhancements at Cordell Hull and Alvin York State Parks offer better visitor experience; attract more tourists

2011-03-21T15:13:00.006-05:00

More than $40,000 has recently been invested for interpretation and promotion of Sgt. Alvin C. York State Park in Pall Mall and Cordell Hull Birthplace State Park in Byrdstown.

“Visitors to both parks will now have a richer experience,” said Claudia Johnson, executive director of the Sgt. York Patriotic Foundation, the nonprofit organization that obtained a federal tourism grant for enhancing the parks.

The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) offered a special grant for tourism development available to only the counties in Tennessee and Kentucky adjacent to the Big South Fork National Recreational Area. Johnson explained that because of the availability of the grant funds for the Hull-York project, tourists are now learning more about two of Tennessee’s most respected native sons.

“For example, the free tours at both sites are self-guided, yet there has been nothing to explain or interpret the experience,” Johnson said. “Now, three large information- and photo-packed interpretive wayside panels are strategically placed at Hull and eight more at York. Additionally, three push-button audio units broadcasting original explanatory messages are installed at each historic site.”

Both Pickett and Fentress Counties have suffered devastating industry closures in recent years, and due to the distance of these areas from rail, interstate roads, major commerce areas or commercially navigable waterways, the emphasis on development of tourism as an industry and the enhancement of tourist-related sites and businesses have become crucial to the economic survival of these communities.

“The York and Hull parks are geographically positioned so that travelers on U.S. 127 or U.S. 111 north of Interstate 40, especially those whose destination is the Big South Fork, could conveniently visit the one or both of the parks,” Johnson observed, adding, “Unfortunately until this project, there was no signage that let interstate travelers know that the York park existed.”

Johnson said while the ARC grant funded directional signage surrounding York park, it did not pay for signage from I-40. However, the Tennessee Department of Transportation agreed to erect signage at Exit 317 directing visitors to York park in support of the ARC grant project’s tourism development efforts.

“We used grant funds to enhance the sgtyork.org website with original videos and narrated slideshows to entice visitors to make the trip,” Johnson said. “We also made available for download a topographical tour map, tour brochure, lesson plan for educators, an original full-length interpretive script and a list of tour stop GPS coordinates.”

York’s bravery and selflessness in World War I elevated him to iconic status, while Hull is internationally recognized as the founding father of the United Nations.

“Through the sheer power of the history and legacy of each of these men –York and Hull – the Tennessee State Parks bearing their names draw tens of thousands of visitors each year to a relatively remote area of Tennessee’s Upper Cumberland,” Johnson said. “This is very good for the economy and confirms that these heroes are still worth remembering.”

For more information about visiting the parks, go to www.friendsofcordellhull.org or www.sgtyork.org.

National World War I Museum

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Sgt. York's family attended services for the last WWI soldier. Watch the video and see George Edward York speak. http://www.theworldwar.org/s/110/new/index.aspx?sid=110&gid=1&pgid=1193

Tennessee Crossroads Visits Sgt. York's Home & Farm

2011-03-10T15:13:00.002-06:00

http://tnvacation.com/multimedia/sgt-york

York Nature Trail Brochures, Walk Where Sgt. York Walked

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Sgt. Alvin C. York Store & Visitor Center, Pall Mall, Tennessee

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This slide

show contains many images from Pall Mall and the Valley of the Three Forks of the Wolf River. Click on the slide show to make it full screen.

Click on this map to enlarge and print

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To download GPS Coordinates for each site, click this link.

Veteran's Day

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Over There: Remembering WWI ~ Music by George M. Cohan, Sung by Billy Mu...

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Join The Sgt. York Patriotic Foundation

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Click on the photograph here for details about membership in the York Foundation, which supports all our projects and keeps open the visitor center at York State Park. We need your membership!

New Book Available at York General Store

2010-10-20T23:31:00.001-05:00

A Sketch of Life as it Was, by Sgt. Alvin C. York

This book contains the entire original contents of a small book written by Sgt. York and many photos from his life. These are samples – one is the cover, one is a page in the book. $9.99 plus tax. We ship everywhere. Please call or email to reserve your copy.

Limited number available. Order today.

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Sgt. York action figures.

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Our visitors send us interesting things

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This is the wedding party of Earl Pyle and Sarah Jane Pierce Pyle leaving by plane on Oct. 5, 1947, from the Alvin C. York farm in Pall Mall.
Pilot Lloyd Love flew the couple from their place of marriage in Dalton, Ga., on Oct. 4, 1947. Two Piper Cub planes took the wedding party to the groom's father's farm in Pickett County for the honeymoon. Chaperon was Myrtle Pittman. Minister was W.J. Lemons.

We like our guests!

2010-10-07T10:20:00.001-05:00

Louie and Denise Greer visited from Hobart, Indiana. We have thousands of guests from across the globe each year. You are invited too.

Arts and Sgt. York's community

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York General Store and Visitor Center, in conjunction with the Alvin C. York State Historic Park, hosted an event May 7, 2011, that brought Tennessee artists, primarily from the Upper Cumberland and surrounding area, to Pall Mall for a celebration of folk and traditional arts. All American and Tennessee history students from private, public and home schools were invited to take special tours. Also invited to the free event were the general public, elected officials and VIP guests from the Tennessee General Assembly and United States Congress. Those wishing to support the arts in Tennessee and similar events should consider buying a specialty license plate to benefit the Tennessee Arts Commission. Proceeds from these sales helped support projects like the one hosted at Sgt. York's home in 2011. Funds for The Art of Work Celebration on April 28, 2012, are being sought from the Arts Build Communities funds, made possible by the sale of these license plates. Visit http://www.tennessee.gov/revenue/vehicle/licenseplates/tnartscomm/tnartscomm.htm.for more information.

The SYPF is a proud member of Tennesseans for the Arts, which advocates for the arts at all levels as a strong, unified voice throughout Tennessee. Visit the site at http://tn4arts.org/.

Limited Edition guitar picks depict scenes of York

2010-06-25T07:41:00.002-05:00

This set of 5 guitar picks depicts images associated with Sgt. York include his home, grave site, grist mill, portrait and military insignia. The set of five in a gift box sells for $9.99 – only at York General Store. The images on each pick are very clear (these are low resolution Web copies) and the picks are of high quality material.

Sgt. York Visitor Brochure – Click on each image for printer-friendly version.

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Visitors often have the privilege of meeting Sgt. York's son, George Edward York (center), a frequent lunch guest at York General Store.

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Buy copies of WWI prints and postcards from Sgt. York's collection like this one. This is the cover of the 1919 Festival of Peace program in Washington DC.

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Choose from a variety of T-Shirts and gifts at York General Store.

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Gifts and souvenirs from WWI and Sgt. York are available in the store and though phone, internet or mail order.

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During World War I's Meuse-Argonne Offensive, Alvin C. York of Company G, 328th Infantry, 82nd Division, led a seven-man attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor and the French Legion of Honor. This amazingly detailed, fully articulated, 1/6 scale figure of the WWI hero features a complete uniform, including an M1917 pan helmet, a frock, a web belt with a holster, pants, leggings and Pershing boots; an M1917 Enfield rifle and an M1911 Colt .45 pistol; and more. 12" tall.

Available at York General Store, $24.99 plus tax and shipping.

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Visitors to York General Store are treated to a 10-minute orientation film, Sgt. York: Legacy in Action, that helps enhance their experience in Pall Mall. The DVD is not available for purchase, with proceeds going to the nonprofit visitor center. The narrative was written by Dr. Michael Birdwell with narration donated by the late Walter Cronkite. Sgt. York's living children host the video. This is a perfect keepsake that can be shared with others for years to come. It is also useful in classroom or other educational settings. $9.99 plus tax and shipping.

Join us at our deli for your meal.

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Order gifts and souviners from YGS

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Purchasing items from York General Store ensures that the visitor center for his homeplace and farm will continue to operate. Call to order your movie from us.

Click on the image for enlarged view!

Original watercolor available at York General Store

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York General Store is headquarters for the Valley of the Three Forks Tour

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