Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
The Clunes Booktown Festival will return on 22 and 23 March 2025, celebrating its 19th year with a diverse program of author talks, workshops, and book stalls. Held in the historic goldfields town 36km north of Ballarat, the festival will once again transform Clunes’ main street into a literary hub. This year’s event will feature…
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Heather Pavitt, Treasurer of the Maldon Athenaeum Library, with other recipients of MI Grants. Photo courtesy: James Baker for the Melbourne Athenaeum. The library has received an unexpected (but gratefully received) grant as part of the Mechanics’ Institute Grant Program. Mechanics’ Institutes were formed to provide free lectures and educational and community facilities. More than…
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Recently one of the volunteers working on the library history project has been digging into the archives to find out which books subscribers were borrowing 50 years ago.
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On Saturday 4 May, the Maldon Vintage Machinery and Museum hosts TEDxMaldon with a range of incredible speakers from near and far.
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