Resting Peacefully in the Smokies: Documenting the Veterans Buried in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Brown Bag 2022 Lecture Series with Joe Emert, Marilyn Childress, and Sheila Evans
Where: 
In person & online
When: 
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 - 7:00am to 8:00am

In Person Location and Reservations
East Tennessee History Center, 601 South Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902 (Seating is limited.) Register on Eventbrite.

Online Reservations
Register on Eventbrite for this event streamed on Zoom

Or visit the ETHS Facebook page at the start of the program to watch this on Facebook Live.

Description
When it was discovered there was not a list of veterans buried in the GSMNP, a group was formed in 2020 to accumulate one.  What started with 163 graves is now over 230 identified veteran burials, from the American Revolution to the Vietnam War.--2020-2021 ETHS Award Winning Project.

About the Speakers
ETHS Board of Directors Past President Joe Emert, Marilyn Childress with the Veterans Heritage Site Foundation, and Sheila Evans with the Daughters of the American Revolution; Friends of the Bryson City Cemetery