February 2009
** The York bust in place in the Village Hall at Châtel-Chéhéry
Picture: Courtesy of Fred Castier
U-Tube Video
** Click here if you would like to see Utube video on the Project, put together by Middle Tennessee State University.
Our brand new and exclusive 80-page tour guide is now on sale. You can buy online via Paypal. We can mail our tour guide book worldwide. More details...
October 2008 - Châtel-Chéhéry
The Café Pour Tous was opened earlier in the year, it is a delightful little place to visit next to the church in the village. One may buy beverages or sandwiches and cake or stock up with water before visiting the battlefields. The scheme was orchestrated by Chatel Loisirs which is an NGO whose task is to promote the villages to tourism. The cafe is a meeting place for both local people and tourists, it has a library and animation for children. It also has a few souvenirs for sale including the York guidebook.
22nd January 2008 Pte Joseph Konotski
David Kornacki a Police Detective from Ludlow Police Dept, M.A. has been in contact. His grandfather was Pte. Joseph Konotski who was a member of Alvin York's section. Joe fortunately survived the engagement in the Argonne forest although he was wounded in a later confrontation. David has heard the stories as handed down to him by his relatives but he is anxious to learn of any additional information. Please contact him via this website.
The York Bust - Dr. Sam Barnes
Now proudly on display inside the village Mairie at Châtel-Chéhéry
'On Fame's Eternal Camping Ground'
By: Trefor Jones
The book title comes from the poem written by the American Theodore O'Hara after the battle of Buena Vista in 1848
When, after the Great War of 1914-1918, the Imperial War Graves Commission began its immense task of erecting headstones to mark the graves of Britain ’s dead, and those of the armed forces of her Empire, the next-of-kin of the deceased were offered the opportunity to have a personal epitaph added to the official information inscribed on each stone. The response from the bereaved families was extraordinary, bringing forth words which ranged from the homespun to the resoundingly lyrical and embraced a wide variety of sentiments. Based on five years’ research, this new book by Trefor Jones presents a study of more than 1,500 epitaphs on headstones in the cemeteries of Belgium and France . These tributes to young British, Australian, Canadian, Newfoundlander and South African sons, husbands and brothers of that lost generation, buried far from home, provide an eloquent and moving demonstration of the power and beauty of language. Although certain to interest students of the Great War, and the Western Front in particular, the book is not ‘about’ the war and will appeal equally to the general reader. It offers a compelling insight into the attitudes of the era, and a remarkable variety of responses to the loss of young men cut down in that unimaginably awful conflict, whose remains lie buried in the foreign soil on which they fought and died.
It is available for sale from Bartlett's Battlefield Journeys,
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German Gas Mask Found at York Site
This is a picture of one of the German gas masks that was recovered close to the scene of Alvin York's action. It is shown after stabilisation by the Heritage Service Conservation Department at Lincoln, England. The whole process took 10 months to achieve.
Gas Mask before treatment
(Click here for photograph of gas mask as found)
Click on above link for some of the artifact photographs taken by the York Project Team in November 2006
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