March 2013

Contents

• Society information and meetings - page 1Society details and meeting notices printed in March 2013.
• President’s report and Society news - page 2Reports local archive facilities, Society activities and plans for museum projects.
• Local studies and historic property tour - page 3Introduces the Bowral local studies collection, an oral-history workshop and a Sutton Forest district tour.
• Fitzroy Falls: early history and art - page 4Philip Morton traces early exploration, Conrad Martens’ depiction of the falls and nineteenth-century visitors.
• Fitzroy Falls: reserve and visitor history - page 5Describes the reserve, an abandoned 1887 land-sale proposal, early tourism and the development of Morton National Park.
• Matron Thompson’s illuminated address - page 6Records the acquisition of a 1900 presentation to the former Berrima District Cottage Hospital matron.
• Artist’s interpretation of history - page 7Introduces James King’s paintings based on photographs of Berrima internees and Bowral convalescent homes.
• Diary and Society information - page 8Meeting dates and postal details printed in March 2013; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• Philip Morton traces Fitzroy Falls through early exploration and art, nineteenth-century tourism, reserve management and the establishment of Morton National Park (pp.4-5).
• The article describes a proposed 1887 sale of reserve land for town and suburban allotments, public opposition and the proposal’s abandonment (p.5).
• The issue records Matron Winifred Thompson’s 1900 illuminated address and artist James King’s paintings based on local historical photographs (pp.6-7).

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