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Meetings
Our meetings are held on the second Tuesday
March, May, July, September (A.G.M), November.
Great Southern Room
4th Floor - State Library of Western Australia
9 May
Speaker - Roger Underwood
Topic - Trees and Water - a parable from the Avon Valley.
Roger Underwood, is a forester, conservationist, historian, bushfire specialist and writer. For the last 30 years he has lived (mostly) at Gwambygine, on the banks of the Avon River, south of York, devoted (with his wife) to reforestation and waterways management. He has published ten books on forestry, bushfire and botanical history and writes a popular story blog at www.forestleaves.blog.
After the meeting we will be going to a local restaurant for dinner and if you are interested in joining us, bookings can be taken on the night.
11 July
Speaker - Trevor Cross
Topic - Scrimshaw – The Folk Art of the Whalers and other Maritime Trades. The historic and the modern, the common and the rare.
Trevor Cross, collector, curator and researcher, has been a student of the art of scrimshaw for more than 35 years. He has travelled extensively, particularly to the east coast of the United States of America – the home of scrimshaw – and has had access to the vast collections of The Kendall Institute, New Bedford and Nantucket Whaling Museums and major private collections. He has worked with Dr Stuart Frank- the world’s foremost authority and presented papers on Australian scrimshaw at Kendall and New Bedford symposiums. He was a close associate of the late Mr Des Liddy of Sydney, a leading authority on scrimshaw and the pioneer in the field of scientific detection of forgery and ageing of scrimshaw.
After the meeting we will be going to a local restaurant for dinner and if you are interested in joining us, bookings can be taken on the night.
12 September
AGM
Speaker - Kate Gregory
Topic - Wild Goose Poetry
21 November
End of year Function
Speaker - David Whiteford and/or Andrew Black
Topic - SLWA map collection
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