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 16 Jan | Almis Simans | Macquarie’s Kingdom Our first talk for 2010 marks the 200th anniversary of Lachlan Macquarie’s influential governorship of NSW. |
| Sat 20 Feb | Ian Hoskins | Arthur Streeton, Henry Lawson and Sydney Harbour North Sydney Council’s Historian speaks on how the beauty of Sydney’s harbour was perceived by artists and writers in the period 1890 - 1914. |
| Sat 20 Mar | Neil Chippendale | Heroism, Duty or Just Bad Luck The life and times of some of Hornsby district's World War 1 soldiers who are commemorated on local memorials. |
| Sat 17 Apr | Stuart Braga | Major Gen ‘Tubby’ Allen – Architect of Victory on the Kokoda Trail Based on the biography of the strategist and leader behind the crucial Australian victory over advancing Japanese forces. |
| Sat 15 May | David Wilkins | Patrols into the Stone Age David will recount some of his experiences with the Australian Army in remote areas of PNG in the 1960s. |
| Sat 19 Jun | Pam Liell | Dressed in their Best A hundred years (1860-1960) of family photographs and what they tell us about costume, manners, shopping and photography. |
| Sat 17 Jul | Judy Rainsford | North Shore Aviatrix The surprising and largely unknown history of pioneering women pilots with northern Sydney connections. |
| Sat 21 Aug | Nola Bramble | Lebanese Migration to NSW 1880s-1920s The little known story of this extraordinary pioneer community. |
| Sat 18 Sep | Bob Lasseter | The Search for Lasseter's Reef Hear the intriguing story surrounding the legendary last gold reef. |
| Sat 16 Oct | Silas Clifford-Smith | Percy Lindsay – Artist and Bohemian Our speaker’s biography of the eldest Lindsay brother (a Roseville resident from 1919 to 1935) won the 2008 Isabella Brierly Prize. |
| Sat 20 Nov | John Read | The Controversial Major Mitchell The life and times of Surveyor-General and explorer, Major Sir Thomas Mitchell. Followed by Christmas drinks. |