Innisfail and District Historical Society

The Innisfail Historical Society's museum was closed from 25th December 2015 to the 5th January 2016 and then only open on a limited basis till the end of January.  The group are giving their wonderful volunteers a well earned rest.  If you wanted to show your visitors around the museum, the Society will try to arrange a time to open up for you.  Phone numbers notice is pinned up on the door.  The Society's new calendar for 2016 is celebrating the centenary of the South Johnstone Sugar Mill.  It is selling extremely well and they have already gone through the first one hundred and had to order more.  They are only ten dollars each and make a good present.  The Christmas Dinner to end 2015 was held at the Innisfail Accommodation Centre on Flying Fish Point Road.  In this new year, they will be having another street walk at South Johnstone to help the sugar mill, the School and the Post Office who are all celebrating their centenaries.  The group will be looking for all their friends to be there to help.  The Society recently had a stall at the Lioness Craft Fair and that was a great day.  There was a great little article published in the Innisfail Advocate newspaper about the Mourilyan State School recent visit to the museum and how much they all enjoyed it.  All the kids are usually horrified when they see the Dunny and learn what it is all about!  More schools should avail themselves of this resource and see for themselves how interesting the museum is.  The Society will also be publishing another of their Memories Albums of photos in this new year, also about South Johnstone.  They have a very interesting history and there is some great photos for the album.  The group also have a postcard and a magnet for sale, both feature photos of the beautiful Johnstone River taken in the 1930's by Robert Stack and hand-coloured by his daughter, Queenie.  They thought they would try these items out for fundraising and they are selling really well.