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Sunday Talks
10 June 2007
Wayne Murdoch & Graham Willett
Size: 7.3M
©Australian Lesbian & Gay Archives
17 February 2008
Michael
Lawriwsky: Author of Hard Jacka, the Story of a Gallipoli
Legend
Size: 6.3M
See the link to Hard Jacka
for more details.
16 March 2008
Pat Grainger: ‘They Can Carry Me Out’
Size: 5.9M
She arrived in Melbourne in
1961 from Los Angeles intending only to stay a short time. Pat
was a founding member of the Port Melbourne Historical and
Preservation Society in 1993. A former Citizen of the
Year of Port Melbourne, Pat is also a prolific and
prize-winning editor, graphic artist and author. In 2001 she
produced ‘Linking Us Together’ detailing how changing
transport developed the cities of Port Melbourne, South
Melbourne and St Kilda. ‘The Story of Excelsior Hall’
described how an iconic building served Port Melbourne and was
the third in a series of booklets following the earlier
publication of ‘Railway Rockeries’ and ‘Port Melbourne Town
Hall’. ‘Walks Around Vintage Port’ detailed six self-guided
walks around old Port Melbourne. Her prodigious output
continues today despite major health challenges in recent
years. In 2007 she produced ‘Chartered Scoundrels - a brief
history of Port Melbourne Hotels’.
13 April 2008
David Golightly: THE
GREAT ST KILDA CANOE MISSIONS:
1877
Size: 4.9M
In 1877
the Reverend Fairey of St Kilda assembled Australia’s first
sea kayak from an English model. He launched his boat from St
Kilda Pier to undertake an amazing journey of 200 kilometres.
It was named ‘The Evangelist’. The reverend built his boat as
a sportsman and to assist him to undertake his missionary
activities and visit his parishioners by sea. His astonishing
journey took him through the Port Phillip Heads to the
Barwon
River. 130 years
later the Victorian Sea Kayak Club Sea Kayak re-enacted this
remarkable journey to honour their founding member.
See
Presentation (5.9M) here.
15 June 2008
Robin Grow:
150th Anniversary of 1st Game of Modified
Football Rules, 3 June 1858, AND 130th Anniversary of the
formation of the St Kilda Football Club in 1878.
Size: 7.5M
Robin Grow is a SKHS member, president of the Art Deco
Society, raconteur and one of the authors of More Than a
Game: An Unauthorised History of Australian Rules Football
(1998) and the recently published The Australian Game of
Football.
See
Notes (38K) here.
10 August 2008
Mackenzie Gregory: Centenary of Great White Fleet visit to
Melbourne.
Size: 4.6M
In 1908, the U.S. White Fleet was sent by President Teddy
Roosevelt to the Pacific Ocean to demonstrate U.S. strength.
En route from the Atlantic, via Cape Horn, the fleet was
invited to visit Australia by the Prime Minister Alfred Deakin.
The fleet visited Sydney, Melbourne and Albany. The talk will
cover the visit of the Great White Fleet to Melbourne, in the
context of the development of the Victorian Navy, prior to,
and just after Federation.
See
Notes (47K) and
Presentation
(6.3M)
