The kiamalocal history blog in co-operation with the Pilot’s Cottage Museum, are developing up a number of history detective programs, using internet clues from this website, roleplay, and physical search for clues using GPS, like at http://geocaching.com.au/cacher/Kiama+Krew with a specific cache here http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gcx2pm
Topics willl include ‘Allen Penny Treasure Hunt’, ‘Headless Ghost Mystery’, The Mystery of the Swedish [...]
Archive for April, 2008
History Detective Program in Development
Posted in History Detective, Uncategorized on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
20th Anniversary of the Pilot’s Cottage Museum
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fran Whalan Life Member, spoke at Wednesday meeting of the Kiama and District Historical Society on the forming of the Pilot’s Cottage Museum, 20 years ago. By a lucky chance, it was exactly, being the 16th if April, 33 years since the Society formed on16th April, 1975, which Fran Whalan was involved in as well. [...]
The Trials and Eccentricities of Rev Spry-Bailey of Jamberoo
Posted in Kiama Mysteries and Questions, Yarns, Tall Tales, Larrikin Pranks and Ghost Tales of K on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reading through the history of the Anglican Church of Jamberoo, the Church of the Resurrection 1867-1967, one comes across the remarkable story of Reverend Spry-Bailey who took over in January,1868, Unfortunately he had inherited a nasty situation where in May 1866, three crosses which decorated the chancel and the two ends of the nave, inside [...]
