May 2015

Contents

• Society information and meeting notices - page 1Lists 2015 office bearers and announces a talk on Bong Bong Common.
• President’s report and luncheon - page 2Reflects on the Williams Gallery and Southern Highlands 1200 opening and introduces natural-history writer Penny Olsen.
• Bong Bong Common and the Poppy Seed Index - page 3Introduces Phil Yeo’s talk on the common and Linda Emery’s account of indexing requests for commemorative poppy seed from France.
• Southern Highlands 1200 exhibition opens - page 4Reports the opening of the Williams Gallery and exhibition about district men and women in the First World War.
• Gallery opening and exhibition - page 5Continues the opening report and describes the community effort and the exhibition’s introductory history.
• Anzac centenary commemorations - page 6Records Society participation in local services and Mittagong CWA’s knitted and crocheted poppy tribute.
• Mittagong’s highway deviation - page 7Philip Morton traces long-running plans to bypass Drabbles and Maltings bridges, the relocation of the bowling club and the road’s opening in 1963.
• Diary and Society information - page 8Meeting dates and postal information printed in May 2015; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• Phil Yeo introduces Bong Bong Common and Linda Emery explains the Society’s Villers-Bretonneux poppy-seed index (p.3).
• The Williams Gallery and Southern Highlands 1200 First World War exhibition open, with community commemorations recorded across the district (pp.4-6).
• Philip Morton traces Mittagong’s highway deviation past the Maltings and Drabbles bridges, including the bowling club’s relocation and the road’s 1963 opening (p.7).

Original Society source