Six geese a laying! Well with my well known ornithophobia that wasn't going to go down too well. If I was going to post on my Hecuba Reads blog, however, I needed to think about six things relating to reading. This task is becoming quite a challenge I realize. When we did our 150 favourite reads I had huge difficulties trying to decide on five books. So now I have to think about six. Hmm. Well I do know six great books: they are the six wonderful local history publications available for sale in our libraries. They are as follows.
Boroondara's yesterdays: a history resource kit for middle years students in the City of Boroondara by Jill Barnard is our most recent publication and its cover is shown above. Whilst written with the school audience in mind, it is actually a great introduction for any ages to the study of local history and its sources as well as the history of our municipality.
Clubhouse: a celebration of local sport in Boroondara by Sonia Jennings & Mary Sheehan was published 2006 to celebrate the Melbourne Commonwealth Games. It is a great read for information about sport, sporting clubs and famous sporting people from Boroondara. Clubhouse is available in print form but also as a talking book on CD narrated by Tony Porter.
Faint traces: Chinese in Hawthorn before the Second World War by Mary Sheehan and Diane Nicholas was published jointly by the City of Boroondara Library Service and the Hawthorn Historical Society and documents the story of Chinese in Hawthorn, particularly focussing on two waves of migrants, namely the market-gardeners and the laundry proprietors. Faint traces is available as a talking book on CD narrated by James Wright.
Voices of Camberwell: from Alamein to North Balwyn by Geraldine McFarlane was written as a result of an oral history project covering the history of the former City of Camberwell. The print publication is no longer available but a talking book on CD is still available for sale. This is narrated by Beverley Dunn and James Condon.
Telling lives: locating and mapping the cultural heritage of Boroondara by Sonia Jenning (with Jill Barnard) celebrates the rich cultural history of our area and provides biographical notes on a large number of writers, artists, dancers, musicians etc. Telling lives is also available on talking book narrated by the library's very own Jane Nolan.
Our final publication is A history of Hawthorn by Victoria Peel, Deborah Zion and Jane Yule which was published by MUP in 1994. This publication traces the history of the former municipality of Hawthorn from aboriginal settlement to local government amalgamtions in 1994.
These six books are titles that I have read and reread and which I have on my desk and consult regularly. Friends and family have often received them as Christmas presents from me. I am not sure that they actually share my passion for these books. But they are six very special books to me.
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