Wednesday, and we finally made it to a remarkable not for profit enterprise - a Historical Village where there are remarkable collections of just about everything that supported life in this community over the past hundred years including tractors, lawn mowers, cameras, mincers, kettles, axes, houses and old Australian vehicles. In a fascinating conversation with a jovial chap called Greg we learned that the project was started about 30 years ago by a group of "old blokes" and since then has involved an increasingly wide group of volunteers who collect, restore, organise and bring alive these treasures through re-enactment. After hearing about my involvement with our local history project at home, Greg presented me with a weighty centenary celebration book about the district, tracking the local history back to before the first settlers. Fascinating.
Thursday 26 August 2010
History
Wednesday, and we finally made it to a remarkable not for profit enterprise - a Historical Village where there are remarkable collections of just about everything that supported life in this community over the past hundred years including tractors, lawn mowers, cameras, mincers, kettles, axes, houses and old Australian vehicles. In a fascinating conversation with a jovial chap called Greg we learned that the project was started about 30 years ago by a group of "old blokes" and since then has involved an increasingly wide group of volunteers who collect, restore, organise and bring alive these treasures through re-enactment. After hearing about my involvement with our local history project at home, Greg presented me with a weighty centenary celebration book about the district, tracking the local history back to before the first settlers. Fascinating.
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