Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery
Where yesterday is just a short walk away, celebrating over 150 years of history.
We are sorry to inform you that on the 27, 28, 29th Nov 2020
we will leave the Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery CLOSED.
These days are forecast to be of extreme heat and fire danger,
and we do not wish to cause extra stress or burden on our fantastic volunteers.
We hope that you remain safe where-ever you are, and if you were hoping to come to the Gallery to do research, why not reach out to us on the contact page and arrange a time to visit.
Message from the SA Government – COVID-19 Website
This message remains only for historic purposes, the threat has been in the past.
As you are probably now aware South Australia will be implementing a circuit breaker from 12:01 am Thursday, 19 November 2020 for the next 6 days aiming to stop the spread of COVID-19 in our state.
Official Directions will be published and instructions will be provided in further detail later in the day as the situation progresses.
Please remain calm and we will provide further detail as soon as we can.
South Australia will pause, and people will need to remain at home for the next 6 days.
COVID-19 Response updates (SA Government Website)
It would seem that the regular appearance of storms and rain has inspired the Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery’s window dresser this month. Volunteer and Committee Member Delilah Balmer has a real knack for window displays and this months was indeed very topical.
After three years of drought the farmers started out with what had promised a good season. Growth wise, it has been good, with rain coming regularly to help the crops grow. It has been great for our gardens (and the weeds too).
Sadly now that ‘hay season’ has been in full steam the rain has not stopped. Farmers have struggled to find enough time between the rain to dry thier hay out for baling.
For many farmers recent rain has all but ruined the remaining crop, now not fit to sell, and only good for on farm use, and as most farmers have less stock due to the drought they have less ability use of the spoilt hay.
It appears at a point where for many, that this year may well be treated as the forth year of drought, not because of the lack of rain, but for the lack of production of goods for income.
If you visit the Heritage Gallery and look through the archives, you will find many more times over the previous 150 years of European settlement that the farmers have struggled too. If you haven’t had a look in the Gallery for quite a while, Pop in! Open Friday, Saturday and Sundays every week.
The new times are:
Friday: 11am-3pm
Saturday: 11am-3pm
Sunday: 11am-3pm
PS – The Gallery is looking for Volunteers to help – check out this page
G’day everyone.
The Gallery is short on volunteers at the moment, with several valuable volunteers having to retire due to health.
As a result have had to change how our rosters work. It has also meant a change in the opening hours for the gallery.
Please note that if you have a bus load of people wishing to see the gallery outside of those time, please contact us as early as possible so we can arrange someone to open the Gallery specially for your group.
And thanks to the great work Delilah does with the window displays, you can enjoy a small part of the gallery even when we are closed.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!!!
NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!
You will be rostered on with an experienced Committee Member
and can boost your confidence and experience over time.
You will get to meet some wonderful people,
both in the Gallery and those Visiting,
and get to experience as much history and stories
as you do your Volunteering at the Gallery,
Give Peter a Call on 0429 811 958
or go through the Contact form on the website.
The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery (EFHG) Management Committee have long promoted the books written by local authors. You can actually drop in to the Gallery and purchase some of them, or even phone and enquire if we have one you are looking for.
As this year is Eudunda’s 150th and Colin Thiele’s 100th Birthday we thought that displaying books from our collection of local authors might be nice.
Of course our most famous and prodigious author is still Colin Thiele with over 100 books published in Australia and many countries around the world, in other languages, and Eudunda is rightly proud to have been part of Colin’s life growing up here, and basing several fiction books on his times here.
WOW! Will you be surprised when you see how many local authors there are and how many books they produced. Take note that the photos of the windows display only include a couple of Colin’s books, all the display is made up of our other authors, so it really does show just how important our Galleries collection is.
Some of these books are for sale too. We are working on a list of the books and an online shop so you can purchase them (those that are for sale).
