Eacham Historical Society

It has been business as usual for the Eacham Historical Society with the museum at Millaa Millaa reporting a regular flow of a couple of hundred visitors per month for the past few months and work at the history centre in Malanda picking up with new inquiries from the public.  Some assistance was given to Mr Bob Prince who is writing up the Prince family history and to Mr Jim Curry of Lake Barrine who is writing a history of his family and their time at Lake Barrine.  Some thought has been given to ideas for a suitable project to mark the approaching centenary of the Anzac campaign but nothing has been decided upon yet.  It has also just been realized that the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the Society's centre in Malanda is coming up in April and some kind of celebration will need to be considered.  Members were surprised at the last meeting when a fellow member presented a donation of $500 to the Society and then a paper was read at the meeting which gave a brief history of the early newspapers of the tablelands.  The Society will be hosting the next quarterly meeting of the Heritage North Association in early March at which it is hoped to get information for a badly needed upgrade for the photography database.