Tennessee Kentucky Western Front Association Meeting

April 27-28

Tennessee Technological University

Derryberry Hall Auditorium

Cookeville, Tennessee

The Tennessee Kentucky Western Front Association will host a seminar April 27-28, focusing on technology and the Great War. Registration for the two-day event is $70.

Special rates of $59 per night (before taxes) at the Baymont Hotel, south of I-40 exit 287. For reservations call (931) 525-6668 and let them know you plan to attend the WFA conference.

Conference Schedule (Cookeville is in the Central Time Zone)

Friday:

11:30-1:00 p.m. Registration

1:00 Welcome and opening remarks, Dr. Jeffrey Roberts

1:30 Battlefield Tourism, Michael Kelly, Bartlett’s Battlefield Journeys

'Oscar'-Emblem of The 13th Aero Sq.

2:45 Break

3:00 Cinema and the War: How Hollywood came to Dominate the World, Dr. Michael Birdwell

4:15-5:30 Cookeville History Museum, Special Exhibit on the 13 Aero Squadron, Dr. Sam Barnes, remarks

Dinner On your own

Saturday

9:00 In Search of Sergeant York: Digging in the Argonne:

Dr. Tom Nolan, Dr. Michael Birdwell, Michael Kelly

10:15 Break

10:30 Fritz Haber and the German War Machine, Dr. Thomas Furtsch

11:45 Break for lunch at the TTU cafeteria

Special Guests: Children of Sgt. York, George Edward Buxton York, and Betsy Ross York Lowry, and his grandson Col. Gerald York, (ret.). On the left is Mrs. York with her famous son.

1:00 Announcing the War to American Scientists: Reports from Scientific American, 1914, Dr. George Webb

2:15 Break

2:30-4:00 Special exhibit of World War I artifacts, and discussion

6:00 Banquet at Nick’s Restaurant