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Main Title: Andrew Ross Museum: Kangaroo Ground chronicle
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Collation: Newsletters in blue plastic folder.
Subject: Andrew Ross Museum (Kangaroo Ground, Vic.)
Museums
Historical societies - Periodicals
Kangaroo Ground (Vic.) (Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country)
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WINTER 2004: Heritage week dirt farming expo p1. Arthur Calwell and Kangaroo Ground p3. Donaldson family p9. Birds of Kangaroo Ground p12. John Weller, blacksmith p14.

SPRING 2004: Kangaroo Ground as it was / Sheila Dixon p5. Birds p7. Some musings on the Post Office p9. Nicholas Berend Pelling 1947-2004 p13. Robert Bruce Ness 1917-2004 p13. School days 1940s / Emma Atherton (nee Love) p14. Wellers Hotel 1886 p18. Kangaroo Ground's link with the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute p20.

SUMMER 2004: John and Joseph Furphy p1. The back verandah room p6. Red wattlebird behavior p8. Emma Atherton continued p12. Weller family p15. Francis Rogerson p16. Cup day at Pigeon Bank p20.

AUTUMN 2005: John and Joseph Furphy part 2 p1. Hotels of the Yarra Valley p7. Ducks of the dams and pastures p11. School days / Emma Atherton continued p13. The Monday morning wash country style p17. Shed, Violet Bank [later Moray, property] p19. Kindergartens p20. Snow, 1951 p22.

WINTER 2005: John and Joseph Furphy continued p1. Self sufficiency 1930s p5. Thomas Young 1825-1910 p9. Birdsong p10. Cemetery tour p12. John Jardine 1804-1883 p14.

SPRING 2005: John and Joseph Furphy continued p1. Post office p6. Ibis and spoonbills p8. Self sufficiency 1930s continued p10. Redbox Vineyard and Winery p13. Agnes Muncaster Bell p16.

SUMMER 2005: Andrew Ross biography and Ross family history p1-6. Christmas in the thirties / Sheila Dixon p8. Birds p15. Frederick Stone 1879-1955 p19.

AUTUMN 2006: Andrew Ross part 2: childhood and early adulthood p1. Bushfires p10. The Thompson House p12. Clarky's Mansion p14. Samson Hill Estate Winery p16. The Stevenson Oak p18.

WINTER 2006: Andrew Ross part 3 p1. Some local foods gathered by the Wurundjeri women around Kangaroo Ground p6. James Andrew Burns and Mary Jane Pryor p8. Trees p10. Dr Peter and Wenda Fleming p12. Ken King and King's Winery p21.

SPRING 2006: Life of Andrew Ross part 4 p1. The Aqueduct p12. Stevenson family p14. Edmund Cuckson p17. Evelyn Country Estate (Winery) p21.

SUMMER 2006: Andrew Ross part 5: later years p1. Thomas William Ellis 1894-1989 p12.

AUTUMN 2007: James Francis 'Frank' Guthrie p1. Thomas Charles Stone 1871-1913 p6. Deaths: Lois Loftus-Hills p12. Charis Meta Alexander Pelling p13. Memories of Sheila Dixon p15. Mick Woiwod p17. Fire brigade p18. Graeme Renshaw p20.

WINTER 2007: Senator Guthrie part 2 p1. Kangaroo Ground Church [Anglican?], 150th anniversary p6. Letter from Mary Smith describing journey to Australia 1857 p8. Kangaroo Ground Store under new ownership p11. Birch's Cottage p13. Gordon Mills remembers p15. Bankhead Winery and the Stevenson family p20.

SPRING 2007: High achievers of Kangaroo Ground: David Scott p1. Letter from Mary Smith 1857 cont. p6. Local land records p11. Donaldson family p13. Roses p17. Mick Woiwod p20. Wedding: William Barr to Grace Arthur 2nd April 1861 p22. School house restored p26.

Vol.13 no.4 SUMMER 2007: High achievers of Kangaroo Ground: David Scott part 2 p1. Preservation of an old workman's cottage p5. The dam at Alma Road p7. Pigeon Bank [homestead] between the wars / John Austin p10. Gordon Douglas Cameron with child c1922 (photo) p11. The happy chooks / Sheila Dixon p14. George and Noel Williams and 'Nermone' p17.

Vol.14 no.1 AUTUMN 2008: David Scott part 3 p1. Aboard the 'David Clark' [ship]: extracts from the diary of Christina Stewart (nee Smith) p6. The dam at Alma Road part 2 p9. The baptism of Mary Donaldson at the age of 90 p15.

Vol.14 no.2 WINTER 2008: The launch of the Moor-Rul Viewing Platform on Kangaroo Ground's 'Garden Hill' p1. The dam: concluded / Eric Dancey p3. Navigating the 'David Clark' (ship) p6. Sheila Dixon 1928-2008 p7. A Kangaroo Ground house of the thirties / Sheila Dixon p7. An Agatha Christie connection p10. The stains could be John Cain's [desk of John Cain] p11. Stuck up at school 1851 p13. McAdam family p14. A near miss that might have put Kangaroo Ground on the map [Rob Roy Hill Climb at Christmas Hills] p15. Where was Kangaroo Ground's first hotel? p16.

SPRING 2008: Kangaroo Ground gets a purpose built community centre p1. At the Memorial Tower 1932 p4. Ken King p5. Pioneers' Memorial Cairn p8. Wangaburra (property) p9. Who planted the Stevenson oak? p13. Stevenson family p14. Bruce Nixon, the museum's patron p15.

SUMMER 2008: Stevenson family: significant local pioneers p1. Furphy family, festival p6. Keith Chappel: surveyor and historian p8. At 'Wallaby Park', Kangaroo Ground 1942 p11. Wangaburra days 1930s p13. Stevenson wagon p15. Who was Robert Clough? p16. Pigeon Bank p17. Portraits: Don Brown, Louise Woiwod, Warwick Leeson, Bessie Kelso p18.

Vol.15 no.1 AUTUMN 2009: The Stevenson story part 2: resettling in the bush, north east of Melbourne p1. A tree grows in Waterdale Road, Ivanhoe p5. Women's suffrage petition of 1891 / Martha Wike p8. Bushfire horror p11. Brief lives (of children in early Kangaroo Ground) p12. Farewell to Kangaroo Ground / Johann Edward De Castella writing to Clare Watson 1959 p16. Birch Cottage saved! p17. George Taylor 1911-2009 p18. Description of Kangaroo Ground from 'The Argus' 28/8/1851 p19.

Vol.15 no.2 WINTER 2009: Changes to the museum board p1. The Stevenson: destination Kangaroo Ground exhibition p3-4. The Kangaroo Ground Presbyterian Church p4-5. John Bell's diary 1934 / analysed by Jenny Anderson p5-9. Diana Bassett-Smith on the Black Saturday fires and their aftermath p10-11.

Vol.15 no.3 SUMMER 2009: Launch of new book: 'Another view of Kangaroo Ground: its land and its people' by Mick Woiwod p2-3. Eric Tetlow 1930-2009 p3-4. Vanished icons of Kangaroo Ground: the 'Evelyn Observer' offices, the Andrew Ross's Hotel, the World War One Avenue of Honour p5-10.

Vol.16 SPRING 2010: Kangaroo Ground Rural Fire Brigade: brief history / Peter Grant p2.

Vol.17 AUTUMN 2011: The Graham Sandpits, Graham Road, Kangaroo Ground p3.

Vol.18 SUMMER 2012: Searching for a photo of Andrew Ross p1. Local head teachers and principals: Laurie Murray; Peter Oyston; Julia Flynn; Robert Joseph Harris p4. Vale: Peter John Oyston 1938-2011 p6. The 1962 bushfires p7. Vale: Cleo (Clare) Watson p8.

Vol. 18 SPRING 2012: Kangaroo Ground's hawthorn hedgerows p1. William Cleaves p3. The late Mr Andrew Ross (from the Evelyn Observer, 18 June 1897) p4.

Vol.18 extra NOVEMBER 2012: Death: Margaret Woiwod p1. Death: Bruce Nixon p2. School bells in Christmas Hills [State School 1362] p4.

Vol.19 SPRING 2013: Kangaroo Ground State Primary School no. 2105.

Vol.20 AUTUMN 2014: The Kangaroo Ground Store p2. Kangaroo Ground Children's Play Pavilion 1914 p7.

Vol.21 SPRING 2014: The Wraight family: 'my country home' p2. Concert at Kangaroo Ground 1889 p9.

Vol.21 AUTUMN 2015: Kangaroo Ground War Memorial Park and Tower of Remembrance 2015 p2. A chat with George and Daisy Taylor p5. The Basset-Smith Award p8.

Vol.21 SPRING 2015: Kangaroo Ground Rural Fire Brigade Ladies Auxiliary: 50 years of service p2. Kangaroo Ground dreaming: an exciting new book by Mick Woiwod p5. 100 years ago from the Evelyn Observer newspaper: Death of the Hon. E.H. Cameron: a veteran legislator p8.

Vol.22 AUTUMN 2016: Kangaroo Ground Cemetery p1. Hotels of the Yarra Valley p3. Kangaroo Ground Hotel destroyed by fire 1930 p5.

Vol.22 SPRING 2016: Kangaroo Ground rural fire brigade turns 125 in February 2017 p2. Two brothers and their gardens [John and James Donaldson] p3. Wellington House p4. Bellevue House p5.

Vol.23 AUTUMN 2017: A brief history Kangaroo Ground Fire Brigade p2.

Vol.23 SPRING 2107: Kangaroo Ground State School: a struggle for progress / Jack Stock p2. Did you know: Kangaroo Ground has a history of early Victorian wine growing p8.

Vol.25 AUTUMN 2018: John Austin 9/9/1931-21/3/2018 p1. Andrew Ross Museum connection with Eltham College's Swipers Gully restaurant p6. Andrew Ross Museum turns 25 in 2018 p6. Interesting historical facts about Kangaroo Ground Primary School, the school house, and Andrew Ross Museum p6. Did you know that Kangaroo Ground had its first post office in 1854 p10.

Vol.26 AUTUMN 2019: Christmas Hill-a brief history p2. 1929-30 Melbourne milestones p4. Still standing after all this time [Butcher Bill's mud cottage] p4. Another of our patrons turns 90-with flair [Diana Bassett-Smith] p9. Heidelberg's busy bee signature quilt p10.

Vol.26 SPRING 2019: The final tenant: some memories of living in the Kangaroo Ground Primary School residence / Alan Bluhm p3. Looking forward looking back: summer fun in Yarra Plenty p12.

Vol.27 AUTUMN 2020: The final tenant: some memories of living in the Kangaroo Ground Primary School residence / Alan Bluhm p3. The Bassett-Smith Family Story Writing Competition p5.

Vol.27 SPRING 2020: Mick Woiwod’s family and work life p2. Mick Woiwod 31.3.1929 – 26.8.2020: a founder and a patron of the Andrew Ross museum p4. Jessie Agnes Bull (Cameron, Haughton) 1923-2020 [Jessie Agnes Bull Sanctuary] p6. World War Two remembered 75 years on 15th August 1945 p8.

Vol.28 AUTUMN 2021: Vale - Margaret Hinkley / Catherine Thomson p1. No traditional Christmas celebration in Kangaroo Ground [Hogmanay/New Years' Eve] p3.

Vol.28 AUTUMN 2022: Good times were had by the first settlers in Kangaroo Ground!! [dances in 1857] p2. The Kangaroo Ground Hall p3. Creating myths around the Mystic Lake [Andrew Ross, 1852, 'Valley of Mists'] p4. Golf in Kangaroo Ground p5. "Pitch & Putt" golf course proposal [1993] p6.

Vol.30 AUTUMN 2023: 25 years of reconciliation in Nillumbik 1998-2023 p2. ANZAC Day 2023, the legent of "John 'Barney' Hines, a World War 1 larrikin" p2. Vale Les Clarke AM [founding Eltham College Chairman] p5.

Vol.30 SPRING 2023: Kangaroo Ground Post Office [from General Store to Winery] p1.

Vol.31 AUTUMN 2024: Wycliffe Australia p1. Lehman manual washing machine (produced in Australia c1920) p4.

Result Collection Location Shelf No Status Notes
Electronic Resources Library Computers Periodicals folder Available From Spring 2015 Held electronically from 2023
Periodicals Main Library P 994.51 KANG AND Available Not for loan