March 2019

Contents

• Museum gallery and a family road trip - page 1Ian Mackey notes the museum’s new digital gallery and Kangaloon school’s anniversary, and recalls an earlier Newcastle-Melbourne family journey.
• Society information and local history conference - page 2Bruce Moore writes about roundabouts; the issue announces the 2019 Galong local and family history conference.
• Kangaloon Public School at 150 - page 3Bernadette Mahony traces the school’s 1867 application, local construction and 1869 opening, with a contemporary newspaper description.
• Opening of Berrima Museum’s digital gallery - page 4Reports the February 2019 opening of the Digital Gallery and its first exhibition, A Butcher, A Baker, A Bunch of Makers.
• Museum opening and Moss Vale school memories - page 5Continues the gallery opening report and introduces David Baxter’s collection of Moss Vale Public School photographs and memories.
• Women’s columns in nineteenth-century newspapers - page 6Philip Morton examines a humorous 1893 Bowral Free Press article and its wider circulation, alongside other historical advice for women.
• Bowral’s first soap-box derby - page 7Draws on Southern Mail reports of the 1947 Rose Street derby, its fundraising purpose, race organisation and competitors.
• 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

• A feature records the 1867 application for a school at West Kangaloon and its local committee (p.3).
• The museum opens a digital gallery and the exhibition A Butcher, A Baker, A Bunch of Makers (p.4).
• The issue includes memories of Moss Vale Public School, historical newspaper writing for women and Bowral’s first local soap-box derby in 1947 (pp.5-7).

Original Society source