Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
On Sunday morning (the only rainy day we’ve seen for months), the Friends of Maldon Historic Reserve group launched a new tour guide booklet, Ride MaldON, which is a companion booklet for their previous publication, the very popular Walk MaldON booklet. Lee Mead, spokesperson for the Friends of Maldon Historic Reserve group, described the new…
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Lost trades and kind craftsmen still exist! You might remember a previous news item about the cedar cabinet in the Athenaeum Library, which is used to house our growing archival collection. It is a much-loved piece of furniture, a small piece of Melbourne history: a glass-fronted cabinet that came to the Athenaeum Library on permanent…
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Carmel Bird reading to an appreciative audience in Maldon. Author Carmel Bird delighted a packed room of around 30 people on Monday 2 March, in an event hosted by the Maldon Athenaeum Library. She spoke about her writing processes and her inspirations, going back as far as her childhood. She described how, after observing a…
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All locals and visitors are welcome to join us for the official launch of the new Ride MaldON booklet; a companion for the very popular Walk MaldON Town and Tracks booklet released a couple of years ago. The launch event will be immediately followed by an optional guided ride around one of the four featured…
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Words in Winter returns to Maryborough. The Words in Winter Central Goldfields 2025 Festival is gearing up to bring a burst of literary inspiration to Maryborough and its surrounds, with a three-day celebration of words, stories, and ideas slated for Friday, 30 May to Sunday, 1 June. This locally run event promises to be entertaining,…
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Stop Press! Carmel Bird at the Maldon Athenaeum Library, Monday 3 March, 10.30am. Don’t miss this fabulous talk by celebrated Castlemaine writer of novels, short stories and essays. Carmel’s most recent works include Love Letters to Lola, a collection of 18 stories, with reflections on writing them, and Arabella, a picture book for children and…
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Volunteers working on the library’s archives. Behind closed doors on Monday mornings, a team of Athenaeum Library volunteers is busy archiving our historic documents. For the past six months, with input from an experienced archivist, we’ve been meeting to sort, organise and catalogue such things as old (sometimes mundane, more often fascinating and occasionally hilarious)…
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Mulga Bill Writing Award Goldfields Libraries and Eaglehawk Festivals Inc. are calling for entries from writers all over Australia for the annual Mulga Bill Writing Award, a celebration of creativity at the Eaglehawk Dahlia & Arts Festival. Poets and writers are invited to showcase their talents in the 2025 Mulga Bill Writing Award. Whether you’re…
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Semalam. Semalam, the highly anticipated first book by Maldon resident Bernice Steinfort, is set to launch on 22 February offering readers an unforgettable journey leading up to the 2002 Bali bombings. With its compelling storytelling and fresh perspective, this fiction is already generating buzz amongst critics and readers alike. The official launch event will take…
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The Maldon Athenaeum Library made a quiet announcement in its regular TT column on Friday: it has received funding from the Maldon & District Community Bank to repair its roof. It’s such fantastic news that it deserves its own article. The library was built in 1934 and the roof, which must protect thousands of books…
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