February 2019

Contents

• Museum plans and Society news - page 1Ian Mackey introduces the museum’s planned digital gallery and notes the resumption of the Society’s family-history and archive work in 2019.
• Memories of family meals - page 2Bruce Moore recalls family meals and food habits in a humorous personal column; historical museum and archive information appears alongside.
• Narelle Bowern’s local research - page 3Profiles Narelle Bowern’s family and local history work and reviews her publication on Aboriginal people in the Southern Highlands, 1820-1850.
• A new museum digital gallery - page 4Describes funding, refurbishment and the planned first exhibition about Southern Highlands makers.
• Old Hume book review and library acquisitions - page 5Frank Mitchell reviews Stephen Gard’s road history; Carolyn Dougherty lists books newly acquired by the Society library.
• Society achievement awards and 1834 records - page 6Recognises Carolyn Dougherty and Philip Morton and reproduces Ros Dale’s extracts from an 1834 directory, including Bong Bong mail and coach arrangements.
• The Cullen family in Burrawang and Moss Vale - page 7Philip Morton follows John and James Cullen through farming, hotels, agricultural shows and Moss Vale municipal life.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Lists Society contacts, opening times, membership fees and office bearers as printed in 2019; these details are historical and may have changed.

Issue highlights

• Narelle Bowern introduces her research into Aboriginal people of the Southern Highlands, 1820-1850 (p.3).
• The museum prepares to open its new digital gallery (p.4).
• New library books and Society achievement awards precede the continuation of the Cullen family’s Burrawang and Moss Vale history (pp.5-7).

Original Society source