END OF YEAR = FIREWORKS' DISPLAYS. In Australia, fireworks are now chiefly the domain of the professional pyrotechnical folk. And it seems they have been for as long as the 1880s. The two major … [Read more...]
Happy hanukkah
THERE ARE OTHER RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS IN DECEMBER. IT IS NOT JUST CHRISTMAS. We look briefly and with the help of other at hanukkah. The source of our story is a Queensland report about a menorah set … [Read more...]
New Year’s resolutions
RESOLUTIONS ARE USUALLY VERY EPHEMERAL, FEW SURVIVE TO MID JANUARY. Here are some postcards urging serious, and others with immodest, thought be given to resolutions. These are by and large North … [Read more...]
Next show & tell, Friday 8 April 2016
8/4/16, 6PM, JOIN A SMALL GROUP OF LIKE MINDED COLLECTORS AT THE CAMBERWELL LIBRARY MEETING ROOM, 270 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria. There are usually between 8-16 of us at these regular … [Read more...]
Theatrical traditions: stage and screen in Bendigo
LOOK AT THEATRE AND MOVIE EPHEMERA FROM GOLDEN BENDIGO. Western theatrical traditions came to Bendigo with fortune seekers in the 1850s. Since then, everything from amateur to professional, … [Read more...]