Meetings
Ku-ring-gai Library Meeting Rooms, The Old Gordon Public School (adjacent to the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon; Cnr Pacific Highway and Park Ave).
| Months | Date and time |
|---|---|
| Jan-Nov | 3rd Saturday 2pm |
| Months | Members’ Research | General Meeting |
|---|---|---|
| Feb-Dec | 1st Saturday 11am | 1st Saturday 2pm |
| Time | Speaker | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| Sat 21 Jan | Elizabeth Donaldson | William Dobell: An Artist's Life Using images and video clips, Elizabeth Donaldson of the Dobell House museum will talk about the life and work of one of Australia's greatest artists, a man more at home in the local pub with his friends than on the international art stage. |
| Sat 18 Feb | Mark Dunn | Joseph Fowles' Sydney Historian Mark Dunn is researching the life and varied work of Fowles, an accomplished colonial artist who is perhaps best known for his invaluable description of the mid-19th century city. |
| Sat 17 Mar | Michael Waterhouse | Adventures on the New Guinea Goldfields An overview of the inter-war history of Australia's involvement in Papua New Guinea seen through the prism of gold mining on the Wau/Bulolo fields from the author of Not a Poor Man's Field. |
| Sat 21 Apr | Craig Wilcox | Life in Australia during the First World War Craig's talk is based on his extensive research for a DVA centenary publication on the effects, at home and abroad, of four years of war that brought a death to almost every Australian family. |
| Sat 19 May | Colin Griffiths | Harry Seidler: Transforming Sydney Harry Seidler changed the skyline of Sydney's CBD with his innovative tall, high-density buildings affording public spaces and incredible views. An engaging talk by a long-term colleague. |
| Sat 16 Jun | Noeline Kyle | A Greater Guilt : Constance Emily Kent and the Road Murder An intriguing story of Australian connections with a notorious crime, centred on the life of a Sydney nurse who died, aged 100, in the 1940s, by well-known academic and author, Dr Noeline Kyle. |
| Sat 21 Jul | Tony Griffiths | Brendorah: World War II Artist Researcher and author Tony Griffiths has a fascinating tale to tell of Bren guns and paint brushes in wartime Lithgow. Come along to hear more... |
| Sat 18 Aug | Carol Baxter | Captain Thunderbolt and his Lady Popular author and well-known genealogist Carol Baxter returns with the true story of New England bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg, the subjects of her "well-written cracking read". |
| Sat 15 Sep | Tanya Crothers | The Letters and Life of Arthur Wesley Wheen Tanya will speak on the life of this little-known World War I hero, linguist, artist and writer (and former Gordon Public School pupil) whose Two Masters was one of the few contemporary anti-war books. |
| Sat 20 Oct | Barbara Angell | Woman's War: The Life of Wilma Oram Young A.M. Do you remember the radio serial White Coolies? Then come and hear the story of a POW nurse and survivor of the Bangka Island massacre who later became the first female RSL president, told by her biographer, Dr Barbara Angell. |
| Sat 17 Nov | Pauline Curby | Stories from Randwick Historian Pauline Curby draws on an abundance of stories of people and places using images and records researched for her award-winning book on the Municipality of Randwick. |