15 Oct 2013 – Muckleford Landcare Talk and AGM
Posted on 30 September, 2013 by Connecting Country
Muckleford Landcare has organised an evening on 15 October with Bill Garner who will talk on the topic of Under canvas: putting the tent back in history.
Bill is a writer of plays, television and now history. His book Born in a tent: how camping makes us Australian is based on his award-winning PhD thesis Land of Camps: the ephemeral settlement of Australia. Born in Drought Street, Bendigo, and growing up among the mullock heaps of Mt Pleasant, in Ballarat, he is a deeply provincial product of the goldfields. For the past thirty years he has maintained a permanent camp on shared land near (but alas not on) Muckleford Creek. His family connection with Castlemaine goes back to the 1860s when his great grandfather, Oliver Warren Collins, was Clerk of Courts.
When: Tuesday, October 15, 6pm
Where: Muckleford Community Centre, Muckleford-Walmer Road, Muckleford
Followed by soup and Muckleford Landcare AGM at 7.45pm.
Members free. Non-members $5.
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL – mucklefordlandcare@gmail.com
A reminder too that Connecting Country is organising its own overnight tent experience on the weekend of 5 –6 October 2013. You can find out more about Landcare Camp Out on The Mount here.
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