Curators: Jane Alexander and Rodney James. An exclusive Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery exhibition. The essays in this catalogue are perhaps the most vivid and pithy history of the Bay so far attempted, and will be read and consulted long after this special summer exhibition is over. Professor Geoffrey Blainey. This exhibition draws upon a remarkable oral, literary and visual history. Illuminating a fascinating and dynamic period in the evolution of the Bay, this history coincides with the establishment of Melbourne in the 1830s through to the advent of World War One in 1914 and the cusp of a brave new world. Jane Alexander.