New history of Cardwell

The 150th anniversary of the founding of Cardwell has brought forth the publication of a number of new books on the story of the town.  Another new book on the history of Cardwell has just been written using the street names as the springboard for the story.  'The history of the town is laid out in the landscape,' said Ms Helen Pedley, the Tully-based librarian, at the launch of her most recent book, 'Streets by the Sea; A Cardwell Chronicle'.  The book was released earlier this month at an event at the Hubinger Memorial Museum with 3 Brigade's Colonel John Simeoni as the guest speaker.  It was important to have a military presence at this event with the military connections of the town's namesake Edward Cardwell and as many of Cardwell's streets having been named after former defence personnel.  This was also relevant as the more recently built streets of Cardwell were named by the Council on the advice from the RSL.  During the creation of this book, Ms Pedley endeavoured to use original accounts from letters or newspaper articles to distinguish it from other memoir based histories of the town.