Douglas Shire Historical Society

The Society was very pleased to announce that due to popular demand, they were able to conduct another Mossman Cemetery walk in October.  So many people missed the first one that Judy Coulthard repeated her fascinating tour of the cemetery.  This free tour was another successful partnership between the Douglas Shire Council and the Historical Society.  The November meeting of the group was held at the Port Douglas CWA rooms and members were asked to bring along some of their old photos and if they could, tell some stories about them.  The Society would also like to say a huge 'thank you' to the Salsa Sorensen organization for funding the Society's new computers.  Now the group can really get the databases in order so it can 'share our history with our community'.  And as it's that time of the year again, the Society's Christmas dinner was held at Mojo's of Massman as usual, on Monday 5th December.  Don't forget the Society's fundraising bookstall at the Christmas in the Park event.  The museum will be closing down on 12th December and reopening on 3rd January and then on the 29th January it will be closed for the annual maintenance program and reopen on the 5th March 2017.