March 2010

Contents

• March meeting and contents - page 1Introduces a Remembrance Driveway talk and features on blacksmiths, Jenny Simons and Berrima’s internment history.
• District livestock and farm sales in 1881 - page 2Carol Nolan reproduces David Moffitt’s stock and land report, including farms and dairy herds around Burrawang and Wildes Meadow.
• Bundanoon and Sunnataram tour - page 3A Society coach tour visits Bundanoon, Morton National Park lookouts and the Sunnataram Forest Monastery.
• Blacksmiths and foundries - page 4Philip Morton describes the work of district blacksmiths and Mittagong’s iron and foundry trades.
• Remembrance Driveway and Carolyn Dougherty - page 5Introduces Leonie Knapman’s talk on the memorial route and profiles a Society librarian.
• Jenny Simons and George Thirkell - page 6Recognises Jenny Simons’s environmental work and remembers the maker of a Fitz Roy ironworks model.
• Prisoners in Arcady - page 7Reviews John Simons’s book on German mariners interned at Berrima during the First World War.
• Diary and supporters - page 8Lists Society events and newsletter supporters in 2010.

Issue highlights

• An 1881 stock and land report lists dairy sales and a Wildes Meadow farm transaction (p.2).
• Philip Morton traces blacksmiths and foundries in the district (p.4).
• The issue reviews John Simons’s history of Berrima’s First World War internment camp (p.7).
• Leonie Knapman introduces the Remembrance Driveway, a living memorial along the Sydney-Canberra route, and librarian Carolyn Dougherty is profiled (p.5).
• The issue remembers George Thirkell, maker of a Fitz Roy ironworks model donated to the museum (p.6).

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