December 2017

Contents

• Society leadership and research team - page 1Incoming president Ian Mackey thanks outgoing office bearers and describes the research team established after Max Rogers’s death.
• Town clock proposals - page 2Reproduces a 2017 Council request for feedback on proposed Mittagong and Moss Vale clock upgrades and possible interpretation of the Mittagong mechanism.
• Historic house tour and history conference - page 3Introduces a visit to Wandevan in Mittagong and begins Linda Emery’s report on the Royal Australian Historical Society conference at Cowra.
• Cowra conference and Windows into Wartime - page 4Continues the conference report and records the opening of a State Archives photographic exhibition at Berrima Museum.
• Windows into Wartime exhibition themes - page 5Discusses the exhibition’s images of home-front life, public health and the 1919 influenza pandemic.
• Ian Mackey and the Society’s research team - page 6Profiles the new president and researchers Carolyn Dougherty, Janet Black and Frank Mitchell, including their local-history work.
• 150 years of railway to Bowral and Moss Vale - page 7Philip Morton recounts the 1867 railway openings and anniversary celebrations; a family-name error in this article was corrected in newsletter 502.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Lists Society contacts, opening times, membership fees and office bearers as printed in 2017; these details are historical and may have changed.

Issue highlights

• A planned tour introduces Wandevan, Henry Southey’s Mittagong house (p.3).
• The museum opens the travelling exhibition Windows into Wartime (p.4).
• A 150-year railway retrospective traces the opening of Mittagong, Bowral and Moss Vale stations in 1867 (p.7).
• The issue also profiles Ian Mackey and the Society research team and discusses the Windows into Wartime exhibition (pp.5-6).