June 2018

Contents

• Museum volunteers and Pie Time - page 1Ian Mackey reports on museum volunteers, digital-gallery plans and a display of historical cookery books and appliances.
• The Alcorn family of Kangaloon - page 2Introduces a family and social history tracing Robert and Margaret Alcorn’s descendants and their connections with Kangaloon and northern NSW.
• Stephen Gard and early banking history - page 3Introduces a talk on the Great South Road and the forthcoming Society luncheon with bank archivist Kim Eberhard.
• Bundanoon memories and Louisa Atkinson - page 4Announces a Bundanoon oral-history event and describes Louisa Atkinson’s watercolour The Possum at Harper’s Mansion.
• Research enquiries and Berrima’s first bridge - page 5Frank Mitchell discusses Society research enquiries, the 1836 Lennox bridge and the sandstone remnants associated with it.
• James Meehan’s 1818 survey expedition - page 6Introduces Meehan’s career and the 1818 expedition, including the participation of Aboriginal guides Bundle and Broughton.
• Reconstructing the 1818 survey route - page 7Philip Morton follows later surveyors’ reconstructions of the expedition’s route and the separate journeys of Meehan and Throsby.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Lists Society contacts, opening times, membership fees and office bearers as printed in 2018; these details are historical and may have changed.

Issue highlights

• Author Stephen Gard is introduced as a Society speaker (p.3).
• Bundanoon History Group shares oral-history recordings, alongside the Stitched with Love bonnet display (p.4).
• The Society’s research enquiries include the first Berrima bridge, while an article reconstructs surveyor James Meehan’s 1818 expedition and discusses the route (pp.5-7).

Original Society source