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(gentle upbeat music) Wish You Were Here produced under an agreement with the Upper Cumberland Development District and made possible in part through support from the United States Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration.

(gentle music) - [Narrator] In the heart of Tennessee, there's a little slice of heaven you just gotta see.

(gentle music) Oh man, wish you were here.

- Hi, I'm Katelyn Steakley.

Welcome to Wish You Were Here, adventures in Tennessee's Upper Cumberland.

Ready to explore?

Me too, but first let's grab a cup of coffee at RockaBilly coffee right here in downtown Carthage (subtle music) Virginia thank you so much for having us.

- Yeah.

Thank you guys for coming.

- We wanna hear about RockaBilly.

Can you tell us the story of how RockaBilly got started?

- Yeah, absolutely.

So I've wanted to do a coffee shop since I was about 13 years old, and I wanted to do it in a small town like Carthage, is where I grew up.

I wasn't ever intending to actually move back here but after going to college, I just fell in love with the idea of coming home to a community and everybody knowing everybody, and I just really miss that.

And it's been very steady.

Very well supported by the community.

We do a full espresso bar, so we have some specialty drinks.

We do regular coffee.

And then my mom makes all of our pastries from scratch.

(gentle music) - Let's see what adventures our Wish You Were Here correspondent Chan Stout had when she visited the Sergeant Alvin C. York State Historical Park during their annual Memorial shoot.

(upbeat music) - [Narrator] Nestled in the Cumberland mountains in the valley of the three forks of the Wolf River you'll find Sergeant Alvin C. York State Historic Park at Pall Mall Tennessee.

This was the home of Sergeant York.

One of the most decorated soldiers of World War I.

He was so celebrated that Warner Brothers made a film about his exploits with Gary Cooper, playing York.

The film, "Sergeant York" became an instant classic and was the highest grossing movie of 1941.

The State Park includes a visitor center where you can find out more about Sergeant York.

You can take a guided tour of his house, check out the Grist Mill, and a reproduction of a World War I trench.

A few times a year, the park hosts World War I reenactments, and a variety of living history events so you and your family can experience a small taste of what it must have been like.

Each spring the State Park hosts the annual Alvin C. York Memorial Black Powder Shoot.

Shooters come from all over North America.

Come on down, visitors are welcome.

(birds chirping) (gun shots) (gentle upbeat music) (gun shots) (gentle upbeat music) - Hi everyone.

I'm Chan Stout and we are here at the Sergeant Alvin C. York Memorial Black Powder Shoot in Pall Mall Tennessee.

And it is my privilege to be here with Gerald York grandson of Sergeant York.

Now this is a 30 year event.

Can you tell us how that got started?

- My uncle Andrew Jackson York was park ranger here at the state park, a couple called us once and came down and they wanted to do a Memorial shoot in honor of my grandfather.

And they wanted to reproduce what happened early on when my grandfather was young and black powder shooting.

And we have people here that have been here for the last 27 shoots.

(upbeat music) - I'm here with the match director, Robin Warner.

And this is not only a 30 year event Robin but you call it.

- Oh, this is the master's golf tournament, the super bowl.

Even though this happens very early in our shooting season if you win this shoot, they talk about you all year.

Sergeant York has always been somebody that I held in very high esteem.

And in fact, he was in the 82nd infantry which became the 82nd airborne.

And when I got into the military, that's where I wound up.

(upbeat music) - I'm here with Bill Burt and he won the very first shootout.

Now, what do you love most?

How did you become a fan of shooting with black powder?

- I'm a TV person.

I grew up with TV.

Davy Crockett, that hooked everybody.

- [Chan] They say that once you win, you have a number one on your back and then everybody's just trying to be better than you, I think that's such an honor.

I think this is amazing.

- Yes, but that pedestal is very slippery.

I didn't stand there very long.

(upbeat music) - Now.

You're gonna help me today.

I wanna see the whole experience.

So for people that maybe don't understand the sport of using black powder in these authentic guns can you show me?

- Basically you're consistent.

You have to do the things the consistent way.

Powder patch ball.

You go powder-- - [Chan] Or it won't shoot at all.

(upbeat music) - [Narrator] As a rule unregistered visitors are not allowed to shoot a long rifle, both because of safety concerns and because this is a competition.

However, in our enthusiastic Chan's case the organizer's kindly made an unheard of exception.

- [Dawn] Get comfortable here.

- Yeah.

All right.

- [Dawn] Get comfortable.

And then you're gonna touch that one.

And then you're gonna just pull it.

- All right.

- [Dawn] You ready?

- How close can my face be to the gun?

(gun shots) Yeah.

( Dawn laughing) Wow.

I just did that.

- [Dawn] How'd it feel?

- It felt so powerful.

I feel masculine.

It's so great.

So great.

Okay.

I'm a fan.

I'm a fan.

I'm coming back.

(upbeat music) - Let's see what trouble our Wish You Were Here Correspondent Rafferty Cleary got into when he visited the Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery just below the dam at Dale Hollow Lake.

(upbeat music) - [Narrator] The rivers and lakes in Tennessee's Upper Cumberland abound with fishing opportunities.

Here, you can fish for bass, catfish, crappy, bluegill, muskie, saga, and trout to your heart's content.

The rainbow brown lake and Brook trout are stocked regularly from a facility operated by the US Fish and Wildlife Service at the base of the Dale Hollow Dam.

You can visit for yourself.

I'm telling you, you've never seen so many trout.

- Hello everybody, I'm Rafferty Cleary.

And today we're at the Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery.

And I'm trying to catch (gentle music) a rainbow trout (gentle music) (laughs) and it's not easy.

(gentle music) This is a rainbow trout, stocking size.

(gentle music) I'm with Thomas Reeves.

He is a fish biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Thomas, tell us a little bit about the Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery.

What's its main goals here?

- Our primary goal here is to make up for the human impact of the reservoir that's in place.

That reservoir has increased the depth of Dale Hollow Lake and decrease the water temperature, the water's coming out of that reservoir.

So the species that can survive in that waterway are now trout that we have to raise at this facility.

Dale Hallow National Fish Hatchery runs at 16,000 gallons per minute.

So our facility has focused most of their efforts on rearing the eggs to actual catchable size.

So this facility grows out millions of catchable size trout every year.

(upbeat music) - I'm with David Capps, with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

David, what type of impact is the Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery having on local fishing opportunities?

- We have a lot of opportunity here at Dale Hollow.

We stock the canyon river anywhere from six to seven months a year.

We do local stocking here also below the hatchery at stream.

And we also stock the Obey River on a weekly basis.

- [Rafferty] So David, what about beyond local?

I mean, how many fish come out of this facility and then how far does the reach extend as far as where you're providing fish to?

- Approximately we'll do about 1.7 to 2 million fish throughout the middle Tennessee and Eastern Tennessee.

And we also go as far as the Alabama and we supply Georgia also with trout.

And as far as pounds, we'll probably stock anywhere from 300, 350,000 pounds a year from this facility.

(upbeat music) - So give us some secrets here.

Where are the fishing holes?

The honey holes here in the area.

- Everywhere we put out our fish according with the state's program.

So anywhere that the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency tells us to stock is where we stock our fish.

Great opportunity for kids to learn how to fish.

We stalk the hatchery creek the water that coming out of this facility we stock it every single Friday without fail except for maybe holidays where we'll stock it out Thursday instead of Friday.

And then we'll also stock the Obey River and everywhere local for the hatchery as often as possible.

(upbeat music) - Do you like museums?

Chan Stout recently had the chance to visit the Black History Museum in McMinville Tennessee.

Let's see what she found out.

(upbeat music) - It is my pleasure to be here today in beautiful McMinville, Tennessee.

We're here at the Black History Museum of Warren County, and I have Wayne Wolford.

He's not only the director, but the curator of the museum.

Now, Wayne, thank you so much for having us today.

Can you tell us a little bit of how the Black History Museum got started?

- Well, the mission came from upstairs and I grabbed it by the reins.

It needed to be done.

We're only 1% here.

We have some very influential people in Warren County.

- If you're a history buff you're not gonna wanna miss this.

Will you give us a tour?

- Yes, I can.

(upbeat music) - [Chan] Now inside the museum, you're gonna see many many rooms and displays.

This is just one of several rooms.

Now tell us Wayne, what's going on in this room.

It feels a little patriotic to me.

- [Wayne] Well, it is patriotic because we have military in here and we have American Legion.

We have the Tuskegee Airman.

Which were called Red Tears for nickname.

We also have another photo of the Buffalo Soldiers.

One individual came in and brought a world war II stretcher.

And if he could tell stories, wow I'm sure that's probably another movie or whatever.

- [Chan] Now the photos over here on the wall every one of these are from Warren County?

- [Wayne] Yes.

- [Chan] Is this a secure representation of Warren County?

- [Wayne] Yes.

- [Chan] Heroes.

- Yes.

I actual got the photos of these individuals that have served this country well.

- [Chan] Now tell us a little bit about what's going on in this room, it looks like there's some principals and some teachers that are being honored, maybe a school?

- [Wayne] Yes.

Some of these schools were done much earlier in 1800s.

We have no idea who these people are.

- [Chan] Oh my goodness.

- [Wayne] Or the name of the school 'cause a lot of the schools were called colored school, and that's it.

So you had no idea who they were.

And one of the main things I wanted to put out was a guy by the name of Julius Rosenwaid.

And he was the president of Sears and Roebuck back in the day.

He helped produce 5,000 schools for black children.

And he was also good buddies with Booker T. Washington.

I have a graduation picture here of around 1942.

They were principal people far as the United States' concerned.

One was one of the most prestigious black men during the '60s, during John F. Kennedy's time and the other one, he was first black judge in Indiana.

And we have a photo here with them standing side by side in the same graduating class.

I thought that was really neat.

- Now we've worked our way to the back of the museum.

And you promised this room is full of surprises.

- Yes, it is.

I have one here, which is my cousin.

He is the first black judge Indiana.

And the other one is called T. Rowan.

which was the ambassador of Finland.

He was the department of intelligence for John F. Kennedy and Johnson.

He wrote eight books.

He was syndicated in 180 newspapers.

- [Chan] That's amazing.

- [Wayne] And many people don't know that he was the one of the first 15 black Naval officers, but he had the highest position for as a black citizen in USA during that particular time.

And mark Gwen was in McMinville as a policeman.

I used to cut his hair, of course quite naturally until right now it's quite clean.

- [Chan] You've cut it right off.

(both laughing) - But he was the TBI officer for Tennessee for 14 years.

And you know, and coming from McMillville that's great.

(upbeat music) - Our correspondent Rafferty Cleary recently visited the Red Silo Brewing Company in Cookeville, Tennessee.

A popular watering hole amongst both locals and visitors, Rafferty.

- Thanks Katelyn.

I'm here at Red Silo Brewing Company the heart of Cookeville's historic west side.

Let's go on inside and check out some of the refreshments and see what they have to offer.

(upbeat music) I'm here in the brew room at Red Silo Brewery with Jim Hilton, he is the co-owner of Red Silo Brewery.

Jim, how many brewers are you all concocting in the brew room?

- [Jim] We have 30 beers on tap and we probably have upwards of 50 recipes.

- So Jim, who's the master of these concoctions in the brew room?

- Nephi Banegas is our brewer.

He came on board about two years ago, and he's done a fabulous job of following our recipes and replicating our recipes.

'Cause consistency is a big thing in craft brewing.

(upbeat music) - Alexis Johnson is with us.

She is a beer slinger, right?

Is that right?

- Right.

Yes.

- Did I get that right?

- Yes.

- We're gonna reverse roles today.

I'm gonna be beer slinger and she's gonna grade me to see how good I do.

So let's go ahead and give it a shot here.

All right.

Is that right?

- This is terrible - I mean.

- No, no.

That is all foam in there.

- All right.

Teach me, teach me.

Come on, I can get this.

- So first step.

- All right.

- Grab your glass, and then we are going to rinse it.

- Rinse?

- Yes.

That's gonna make the glass nice and cold.

- That was the key step that I missed.

- Yeah, a little bit.

All right, now you're gonna tilt your glass a little bit.

Pull the tap all the way forward.

- I didn't pull it all the way forward the last time.

- Now straighten it up.

- All right.

Now.

- There we go, all right.

- This is the art of pouring a perfect glass.

- Much better, much better.

I got some beer in that sip.

- They'll hire me, won't they?

Would they hire me?

- You gotta fill out an application.

It's a lengthy process.

I don't know.

(upbeat music) - Alexis, Jim, so 30 brews on tap here at Red Silo.

Let's call these your six finest at least, lined up here.

The garnishes Alexis explained what these two are here.

- So this one is our Belgian thong.

It is going to be similar to a blue moon.

So it does have that nice citrusy taste to it.

So we add the orange to it.

Just add a little more pizzazz.

The one with the lime is our big Mexican.

It is a Mexican Amber lager, so of course that lime just kind of heightens the flavor.

- Pizazz, I like pizazz there.

All right, Jim.

So tell us a little bit about the remaining brews here.

- Well the darker beer nearest to you is our peanut butter Porter and it's been a staple of hours since we opened.

We actually were making it before we did open.

I got threatened with cutting my tires.

If I took it off tap, keep it seasonal beer but it's all on tap all the time.

The next beer in line is our Dublin coffee house.

It's a seasonal it'll come in once a year.

The next one is our honey bear blonde, it's a honey ale obviously.

It's been one that we made for a graduation several years ago and it's been so popular we kept it on tap.

And we have just recently started making seltzers.

This is currently our cotton candy seltzer, it's a very, very popular product.

- This one doesn't even last a full day.

Once it's on tap people come running.

Lasts probably maybe four or five hours before the kegs gone.

(upbeat music) - Well, that's all for now.

Make sure you stop into Red Silo next time you're in the Upper Cumberland.

- Cheers.

- Cheers.

(upbeat music) - The Appalachian Center for Craft is a nationally recognized school for artists and is a jewel of the Upper Cumberland.

Our correspondent, Matt Beal visited their campus during their free celebration of craft event, held every spring.

(upbeat music) - Hello and welcome to Wish You Were Here.

I'm Matt Beel here at the beautiful Appalachian Center for Craft with our special guest Kim Winkle.

I'm excited to have you.

Tell us about the Appalachian Center for Craft?

- Well, the Appalachian Center for Craft is an 87,000 square foot facility dedicated to craft and craft education.

We're placed on 500 acres of beautiful army co-engineer land, where we have hiking trails that go down to the lake in addition to our wonderful craft programs.

Our craft programs include a bachelor of fine arts degree program.

We have community education programs, so the general public can come and take a week long or weekend workshop to really immerse themselves in our wonderful craft studios.

In addition, we have a wonderful retail gallery where we show works and sale works of regional artists and artists who are affiliated with the craft center in some form or fashion.

(upbeat music) - [Narrator] As a man of action, our correspondent, Matt decided to take part in one of the hands-on craft activities.

One young guest agreed to teach him how to create a paper book.

- So you do this, and then-- - Like this?

- No, that's not how you do it.

- That's not how I do it.

Okay, how I'm I supposed to do it?

- You gotta pull it up to the top and then crease it.

And then the next part you do is you fold it-- - Like this?

- The other way.

Yes.

And then you crease it.

- Look, I'm getting better at this already.

(upbeat music) - We are outside the glassblowing studio and I am joined by instructor of glass Damon Macnaught.

So tell us what is the most challenging aspect of glassblowing?

- I think probably one of the most challenging aspects of glass is getting the piece away successfully.

There's a lot that can go wrong.

The process is complex and involved.

And as you've seen in the hot shop, it's a team effort.

And so we hope everything goes right from start to finish and that we can get the piece away successfully.

- [Matt] Absolutely.

And how hot does the glass actually get?

- The glass is quite hot.

The furnace with our glass is 2,150 degrees Fahrenheit.

And so that is puts the oven at home in perspective.

It's hot.

- (laughs) Yes, it does.

(upbeat music) - [Narrator] Let's check in to see how Matt's craft project is coming.

- Then what you're gonna do is you're gonna take half of your hand like this.

- You'll have to show me how, right here?

- So keep this part up.

- Okay.

Keep this part up.

- Yes.

Yeah like that.

- Like that okay.

- Then you lay it down.

- How do we get there?

(upbeat music) - We are outside the blacksmithing shop and I am joined by Associate Professor of Metals, Dan Randall.

Dan I understand that the craft center is one of only two higher education institutions in the country that offers a bachelor's in blacksmithing.

So tell us how would a graduate of the program put those skills to use after graduation?

- There's really a broad range of areas that you could go into.

I'm sure people are really familiar with forged and fire which is created a great interest in bladesmithing.

And so bladesmithing is a profession onto itself.

I've had students who are interested in farrier work which would be an adjacent trade but utilizing the same fundamental principles that we use, most go into architectural and sculptural work.

And so if you think about it as jewelry for houses there's a really large market sector there where there is a lot of opportunity for students to earn an income.

(upbeat music) - We are outside the wood studio and I'm joined by Assistant Professor of Wood.

Annie Evelyn.

Tell us about the woodworking program here at the craft center.

- Well, it's amazing.

It's one of the largest best equipped studios that I've had the personal pleasure of working in, and the students have so much personal space.

And also the class sizes are really small, so the students get really personalized attention.

(upbeat music) - [Narrator] Matt, are you finished with that paper book yet?

- Then you do the same thing for about five times and it can be different colors.

- Then put it all together?

- Yes.

- And then that's what makes our book?

- Yeah.

And then you glue it all together and then it happens.

It comes.

- [Matt] Oh, look at that.

- Or you can glue it together, but like this or you could keep it closed.

And then it would be like a little book and you could write stuff in it.

- I still have some work to do I think.

- You do.

(upbeat music) - [Narrator] Don't worry Matt, you have other strengths.

(upbeat music) - That's our visit to the Appalachian Center for Craft right here in the Upper Cumberland.

Thanks for joining us.

Wish you were here.

(upbeat music) - Oh wow, you're really gonna have to visit this place.

Meanwhile, join us next time for more adventures in Tennessee's Upper Cumberland.

Wish you were here.

- Here we go.

- Do I have to clap again?

- When she visited the Sergeant.

- Wish you were here.

- [Man] Did you get it right?

- I don't know, did I?

(upbeat music) - Wish You Were Here, produced under an agreement with the Upper Cumberland Development District and made possible in part through support from the United States Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration.

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