Oakleigh Cubs and Scouts

Four of our Creating Young Local Historians workshops have been with local cub groups. Two with Oakleigh and two with St. John's Wood.

They gained their Local History Badge after their second workshop attendance.

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Gralton, Lloyd & Ray

First public YEAH workshop

Our first public workshop for the Young Explorers of Ashgrove History on Sat 13th October went well.

We kicked off with Uncle Nurdon Serico talking about Turrbal people in Kallindarbin. Here's the link http://youngexplorersashgrovehistory.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/turrbal-people-in-ashgrove-area.html

This took a little longer then we were anticipating because of the children's interest in fishing and swimming holes and sedimentation.

Our other major activity was the  Great Ashgrove Memorabilia Mixup. One of the girls did a great job reading the accompanying disaster story:


"Oh No! Strawberry the house cow got into the vegie garden again."  "And, when Mum and the kids ran out to chase it back into the paddock, the dog ran inside and knocked all of the Ashgrove history photos and memorabilia onto the floor."  "They're in a terrible mess. Better work out which photos go with objects before Mum gets back."

"Can you help me please?"

"Here's the photos. Can you work out which history memorabilia objects go with which photo?"


and the guessing began. 

Finding photo on iPad

Daryll telling a story

Selecting artefacts

 Once we successfully matched photos and objects and talked about them. The young explorers got to draw one of the objects.

Liam drawing horse to accompany blacksmiths pincers

Drawing the butter churn and the fret saw

 The Great Memorabilia Mixup activity was so successful, we kept it in all of our workshops. Children have been fascinated with some of the objects such as the string of newspaper toilet paper squares, the butter churn, the pre-decimal currency coins, tools in general and the buggy wheel.


 

Successful launch of project & QR adventure

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

Launch of Creating Young Local Historians Project

Saturday 6th October, 2012 - 12:30 - 1:30pm

Ashgrove Library, Amarina Ave, Ashgrove

Help us  celebrate and have some historical fun

Meet the project leaders
- Lindy Sugars, President Ashgrove Historical Society
- Daryll Bellingham, storyteller

and special guests
- Cr. Geraldine Knapp
- Uncle Nurdon Serico
- Miss Pat Fahey  (one of our local living treasures)

Enjoy some local history stories, games, photos and memorabilia

Learn about some of the technology we'll be using during our Young Explorers of Ashgrove's History (YEAH) workshops.

Free Public Workshops were held at Ashgrove Library

For Children
1) Saturday 13th October, 2012  2:00pm - 3:30pm

2) Saturday 10th November, 2012 2:00 pm - 3:30pm


For Adults
1) Saturday 24th November, 2012 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Glen Lyon House and billiard room on right.

Mrs Holt watching soldiers on Canberra Drive, 1930's (?)

Creating Young Local Historians Project commences

Welcome to the first post for the Ashgrove - Creating Young Local Historians Project.

We're planning a great project launch party to happen in Ashgrove, Brisbane soon and we've got lots of fun history activities in mind so come back here soon for all the news.

Our project leaders are:

- Lindy Sugars - President of the Ashgrove Historical Society and

- Daryll Bellingham - Storyteller.

You can become a Y.E.A.H.  - can you guess what this stands for and post a comment below. The first successful answer gets an exciting, free QR code. (What's that? What's that? Duhh.)

'Lindy, I've been wondering. How did Ashgrove get its name?'  (Daryll)