August 2009

Contents

• August meeting and contents - page 1Introduces scientist John Bunt’s Antarctic talk and the issue’s museum and local-history features.
• Society notices and events - page 2Records plans for the Society’s fiftieth anniversary, new equipment, a family picnic and activities at the archives.
• Historical newspaper extracts - page 3Extracts include an 1841 Berrima execution report, a nineteenth-century photographer and local agricultural news.
• Visitors to the internment exhibition - page 4Reports a German parliamentary visit to Berrima District Museum’s Prisoners in Arcady exhibition and reproduces the visitors’ response.
• Highlands history and Wombeyan Caves - page 5Introduces the Society’s newspaper history column and reproduces historical illustrations of the caves and road.
• Antarctic memoirs and colonial families - page 6Introduces John Bunt’s memoir and a genealogical reference book on children in colonial New South Wales.
• The Burning Mists of Time - page 7Reviews a book on Katoomba’s shale mining, railway and tourism history.
• Diary and supporters - page 8Lists Society events and newsletter supporters in 2009.

Issue highlights

• A historical illustration and 1928 road photograph accompany the Society’s account of Wombeyan Caves and its access road (p.5).
• The museum reports a German parliamentary visit to its Berrima internment exhibition (p.4).
• The issue introduces books on Antarctic experience, colonial family history and Katoomba’s mining history (pp.6-7).
• Historical newspaper extracts include an 1841 report on the execution of Curran at Berrima (p.3).

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