CALABAMAPEDDLERS

CAlabama Peddlers are looking for your stories about daily life in York: local history, interesting current events, local heroes, personal landmarks, railroad lore and more! For one month, starting on April 13, Sue Mark and Bruce Douglas, a wife-husband team from Oakland, California, will be riding their tandem bike in York and surrounding towns in Sumter County. Sue and Bruce will be listening to your stories along the way. They want your help creating slogans that will promote York. They will travel through the region served by the old Alabama Tennessee & Northern Railroad displaying these slogans on a billboard towed by their tandem bike. In exchange for your stories, the Peddlers will gladly assist you with a chore: grocery pick-up, mail deliveries, or small odd jobs.

CAlabama Peddlers want to discover your community pride! If you would like to meet with the CAlabama Peddlers, please call 205-392-2005 to schedule a visit. This project is sponsored by the municipalWORKSHOP at the Coleman Center for Art and is funded by the Alabama Arts Council.

Alabama, Tennessee & Northern Railroad Route Map; the train ran from Mobile to Reform, with a station in York. Read a brief history of the now defunct AT &N Railroad, which was in operation from 1897-1971.

We hope to pedal to the AT&N depot which still stands at the end of the line in Reform, AL. It’s about 70 miles north of York.

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