Wendy Taylor reports that she receives an average of three enquiries per week for the Society through her E-mail address. If you can help Gary with this project, contact him at the local Police Station, High Street, Avoca. This exhibition is part of the Australian Family statewide project and is drawn from the Society's rich Images Collection. The photographs range from intimate family portraits to rare historical images, some of national significance, and explores many facets of family life here from the pioneer days of colonial settlement to modern times, as captured by the camera. The images are complemented by family papers such as pioneers' letters and diaries drawn from the RHSV Manuscripts Collection.
Admission is by donation.
It is pointed out that this is a busy weekend in the area, so early bookings for accommodation are advisable. It was just a sleepy hamlet until the making of the film there transformed the village into a mecca for tourists. And it is reported that the visitors quite expect to find Father Peter Clifford in attendance at the church, which is high on every tourist's list of places to see. The close-knit population of 850 of Avoca now hosts some 400,000 visitors a year. Another place of the same name is in New South Wales, south east of Mona Vale, there is one in Tasmania on the South Esk River, and your Editor found another Avoca, a gold ghost town, high in the mountains of the South Island of New Zealand, between Christchurch and Greymouth.