What a pleasure it was to host the State Library's Travelling Treasures. After moving the children's section of the library temporarily, members of the public were delighted with the items on display and the look back through history to our beginnings in Australia.
Covering "The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay" "The Diary of Samuel Lazarus and the Eureka Rebellion" and "a book of sketches by Ronald Searle - POW on the Thai Burma Railway and Changi Prison", the audience were spellbound as they listened and looked at these precious documents.
Thanks must go to the State Library for taking the initiative in bringing old historic documents out to rural Victoria to enable the average person to have the opportunity normally not readily available.
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