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Queanbeyan and District Historical Museum Society Inc. Queanbeyan Museum JANUARY - FEBRUARY
The Museum is closed for renovations to the floors. We have discovered structural problems with the floor in one room in the Museum and are now planning to re-open on Saturday February 20th 2010. FEBRUARY Saturday 13th Members Working Day – 9- 12.30
Come in and help us put the Museum displays back after the floor refurbishment. Saturday February 20th Museum will re-open to the public. Autumn
MARCH – WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
March – Members Gathering – General Meeting – Guest Speaker Marilyn Dooley – Shared Lunch To celebrate Women’s History Month {theme for 2010 is Demeter’s Daughters: women’s harvest history} A Harvest of Shamrocks & Dragons - Saturday 20 March 11.15 Bring some food or drink to share and stay for a shared lunch after Marilyn's talk. A Harvest of Shamrocks & Dragons will be presented by well known historian Marilyn Dooley. Marilyn is a lively and entertaining speaker and will be exploring the results of her own family history research: This talk will explore one family’s legacy of its women’s harvest history; and consider the landscape in which the first immigrant and first Australian born generations of our ‘daughters of Demeter’ lived. My maternal family line goes back four generations to my Irish great grandmother from County Armagh in Northern Ireland, and a Chinese great grandfather from Canton China. They married in 1871 in Central Queensland and lived on Rosewood Diggings Goldfield; where they kept a pub, a store and a market garden on their farm “Armagh”. Their Daughters of Demeter drew water from the nearby creek and carried it on yokes to nourish the celebrated veggies and citrus trees. The landscape framing our 19th century generations was one of the bush and the gold rushes in Central Queensland. Down what is now eight generations, the women of my family have given us a rich heritage of harvesting from the bush to the beach, and through fire, flood and drought. As well as growing vegetables, they have raised chooks, cattle and goats, kept bees, fished in the bush creeks, crabbed in the mangroves on the coast, conducted mango eating competitions, cooked custard to die for on old wood stoves and made Christmas roast dinner in 43 deg heat. During World War 2 my aunts picked cotton for the Women’s Land Army. Today we have women who run their mango plantations, some who grow their veggies and herbs and the odd one who still plants sweet peas each St Patrick’s Day. APRIL – Queanbeyan Heritage Festival 8 - 24
April – Sunday 11th – Queanbeyan Heritage Trail - Queanbeyan Heritage Sites. A guided tour of some of the prominent heritage sites around Queanbeyan. 10am - 3pm Price $20 Bookings Essential 6298 0239
April – Saturday 17th Members Working Day – 9- 12.30 April – Saturday 24th – 11am - 4pm Laying Down the Law This open day will focus on the history of the Museum building and policing in Queanbeyan. Dr Mike Kelly Federal Member for Eden Monaro will launch the Federally funded renovations to the building and our new storage building. Refreshments and entertainment. Also the Queanbeyan Council Heritage Awards, the Deputy Mayor of Queanbeyan will announce the Heritage Awards for 2010. Winter
JUNE
June – Saturday 5
12 noon – Members Gathering – General Meeting 2 – Exhibition opening – Queanbeyan Has "Iron Lung". Join CIT Museum Studies students at the launch by Dr Trevor Roach of their exhibition exploring the fascinating history of the Museum's Both "Iron Lung"
JULY
July – Excursion to Old Bywong Town TBC AUGUST August – Local Government Week August – Saturday 7th / 14th Members Working Day – 9- 12.30 TBC Spring SEPTEMBER – History Week
Open Day Faces in the Street Photographic Exhibition - Queanbeyan People and Streetscapes 11am-4pm Saturday 11th September 2010 Free entry No Bookings required This lively and entertaining 50s themed day will launch a photographic exhibition Faces in the Street - Queanbeyan People and Streetscapes in a newly refurbished Museum exhibition space which will be used for photographs and temporary exhibits. Refreshments provided. Entertainment will feature the 1950s with rock and roll music, dancers and cars on display. OCTOBER October – Members Gathering – General Meeting – Guest Speaker – Shared Lunch NOVEMBER November – Monday 15th AGM November – Collectors Day TBC Summer
DECEMBER
December – Saturday 11th End of Year Drinks TBC Queanbeyan City Council |
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