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Colin Thiele Drive – Free Bus Trip 7th September 2024

FREE Bus Trip – Limited Seats Available so book in early.
Take a bus trip with one of our Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery Tour Guides and experience the country where famous Australian Children’s Author & Educator Colin Thiele AC grew up and hear some stories from your guide.

Colin Thiele Drive - Free Bus Trip 7th Sept 2024 — Colin Thiele Drive – Free Bus Trip 7th Sept 2024

Colin authored a 100 Children’s books plus poems and other literary works. Some of his books include ‘Sun on the Stubble’ based on the local area and many of it’s characters. He is probably best known for his book ‘Storm Boy’ which later was made into a movie and more recently as a stage play.

‘Colin Thiele Drive – FREE Bus Trip Saturday 7th Sept 2024
With Guide from Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery
BUS leaves at 2.30pm From the Eudunda Centenary Gardens
Return about 3:30~4:00pm at which time there is an opportunity to go to the Saints Clubhouse for afternoon tea or stay longer and have a full meal.

This trip is part of the Celebrations to remember & honour the 10 years since the Opening of the Lavender Federation Trail from Truro to Eudunda.
The event has been sponsored through a Regional Council of Goyder grant.

You may wish to do some of the other activities too.
Find out more on the South Australian Recreation Trails Inc (SARTI) website
SARTI Website for Eudunda Event

New Photocopier A Great Benefit To The Gallery

Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery - new Photocopier — Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery – new Photocopier

Thank you to the Regional Council of Goyder for helping us acquire a brand new photocopier, and to Alison Schutz who put together the Ward Funding application.

The new photocopier has arrived, and the committee is extremely grateful and happy. We are looking forward to using all the capabilities it provides.

The extent of its capabilities, will soon be discovered and will include assisting local community groups and organisations to print and photocopy.

Thank you!

Eudunda Books Presented To SA Parliament Research Library

On Thursday 21st June 2022, several Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery volunteers travelled to Parliament House to donate books based on the Eudunda area to the South Australian Parliament Research Library.

When one of our volunteers, Samuel Doering, donated his first book to the Library in November 2021, it was discovered that no other books relating to Eudunda were in the collection; Thursday’s visit rectified this!

The Gallery donated thirteen local history books, from general histories of Eudunda and Robertstown, to more specific histories of the Eudunda Show, Eudunda Hospital, Eudunda Club, Hundred of Julia Creek, Brownlow and more.

We hope these books help our MPs gain a deeper insight into the rich history of our area.

The visitors gave a bit ‘Thank you’ to Dr. John Weste for giving them a tour of the extraordinary collection at the South Australian Parliament Research Library.

Successful ‘Friends of the Gallery Morning Tea’ 2022

The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery Management Committee held thier annual ‘Friends of the Gallery’ Morning Tea Meeting on Wednesday, 9th Feb, 2022, at the Eudunda Hall.

The ‘Friends of the Gallery’ Morning Tea marks the birthday of the founding of the Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery, and as has been tradition, the current Eudunda Citizen of the Year, Helen Schiller was asked to cut the cake to mark the occasion.

Helen Schiller Cuts the Cake at Friends of the Gallery Morning Tea 2022

To a smaller gathering than the previous year, due to a spike in COVID warnings causing some last minute cancellations, Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery Management Committee Chairperson Dot Bonner spoke of challenges and triumphs during the year, and of the exciting things planned for the year ahead by its Volunteers and Committee.

Chairperson Dot Bonner Explains Future Plans at the Friends of the Gallery Morning Tea 2022

The Morning Tea is also traditionally where friends annual membership is paid, and Dot explained that Membership has remained the same for the last 25 years at $10, but in that time everything has risen in cost the Committee we will be increasing membership slightly next year.

IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO STILL SUPPORT THE GALLERY
One year Friends of the Gallery this year remains at $10
or the 3 year membership for $30
or consider becoming a ‘Gold’ Friend of the Gallery for $100

Heritage Gallery Launch Online Book Sales

The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery Web Shop is Open Aug 5th 2021

The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery (EFHG) had been planning for quite some time to sell some of the books they have online.

Chairperson of the Gallery, Peter Herriman explained that he and Gallery volunteer Samuel Doering who is currently in London, having successfully completed his undergraduate studies at the New College of the Humanities, had been collaborating online to establish the online sale of books. Peter explained,

“The Gallery has been going for approximately 24 years, and has had a ‘web presence’ quite early on, since the days of the Southern Goyder Telecommunications Network (SGTN) in 1999 to 2000. They took on thier own web identity about 2001, and it remains an active website, sharing news about the Gallery.

“Adding the online sales is a significant step for the Gallery. Samuel & I launched the shop part of the website last Thursday Night without much ‘fanfair’ locally.

“Samuel had done a fantastic amount of work posting regularly, with fantastic research, stories and photos on the Heritage Gallery’s Facebook page over the previous year, and built up a great contact network. When Samuel posted the advert (shown above), we were very happy to see that people were keen to find books about our region, and were snapping them up immediately.

“I truly believe it has been Samuel’s hard work in promoting the Heritage Gallery in the first place which had allowed his post to be seen by so many through Social Media that saw the immediate response we have had. You can image that Samuel and I were beaming from ear to ear.

“Having the online shop will help ‘Future Proof’ the Gallery, especially in the current turbulent times of COVID lock-downs where the Gallery cannot be open, at least we can still spread the word about our great district to the rest of the world through our books.

“We would like to say a big ‘Thank You’ to those who made early purchases and to let you know that the books will be on thier way real soon.”

You too can explore the web shop, it only has 11 book titles at the moment, with more to come and if you are local you can still buy online, any time of the day or night and pick the books up when the Gallery is open without incurring a shipping fee. Please also tell others about this new service.

The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery is run by volunteers and is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am to 2pm.

Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery Shop