We had a good launch of the Creating Young Local Historians project on Saturday at Ashgrove Library.
Uncle Nurdon Serico gave us a great welcome to Turrbal country and invited us to include Indigenous knowledge in our workshops.
Councillor Geraldine Knapp formally launched the project for us and told us some really interesting stories about her family's experience of Ashgrove and the Ashgrove that she has become such an important part of. The project is only possible with the help of a Community History Grant from the Brisbane City Council. Thank you Geraldine.
We had fun working out why Miss Pat Fahey was a special guest and a living Ashgrove treasure. (If you don't know you'll have to come along to a workshop to find out. We'll be doing an audio podcast about her adventurous childhood using GarageBand. )
We had an adventure or two with a QR code and my iPad.
One of the satisfying results of our QR code adventure was that it worked really quickly. We gave out small cards with a QR code printed on it to attendees of the Launch. One of the attendees, Liam, and his dad must have followed the map that it led to that very afternoon because he's already sent us a photo of him at the Ashgrove 150 History Trail.
Here's Liam at the start of the trail. I think he's going to know the answer to what the first plaque says.
and here he is at the end of the trail at the plaque that commemorates the first land sales around Ashgrove.
I wonder where there is a memorial to the Turrbal people?
Now if you would like to have an explore around our first Family History Exploration trail, here's the QR code for you to scan with your smart phone or iPad (you might have to download a QR scanner app if you haven't already).
And of course we would love to see primary age children at our public workshop at the Library on Saturday 10th November, 2012 at 2:00 pm.
Here's a link to the registration form or you can fill it in at the Ashgrove Library.
Any suggestions or feedback welcome via the comments below.
Daryll
Daryll
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