From its earliest days, the Ithacan Philanthropic Society has conducted an annual family picnic held at country towns on Melbourne's urban fringe. For many years Bacchus Marsh was a popular venue where this picnic group was photographed. Women would prepare delicious traditional Greek food and families would group together to enjoy a wonderful picnic spread. The annual Ithacan Picnic has been a very important event on the society's social calendar. In the early days, as many of the families ran family businesses such as fruit shops, fish shops and cafes, Sunday was the only break they had away from their work. The picnic gave them a chance to relax and to catch up with extended family and friends. Today the picnic continues to be an extremely popular day for the members where generations of Australian Ithacans get the opportunity to reunite. A black and white photograph of a large group at a picnic standing and sitting around and enjoying a picnic meal which has been spread out on the ground. Three cars are parked in the background under the trees.

Document. Letter to Greta Balsillie from Peter Frost CoGB Re Proposed Monument at White Hills Cemetery recognizing the Old Bendigo Cemetery. Letter dated 22nd October 1993.document, memo, letter to greta balsille

Document. Letter to Carol Holsworth from Robert Bruce, Australian Heritage Commission RE nomination of Chinese Funeral Tower at Bendigo Cemetery for the register of the National Estate. Letter dated 3 June 1996.

Document. Letter to Helen Bruinier (Secretary FOBC) from Bruce Macumber, Bendigo Cemeteries Trust. Letter dated 25 June 1998. Two Pages. Letter demanding that tour brochures related by the FOBC be withdrawn immediately because of errors and misleading advice, and the brochures have not been approved by the Bendigo Cemeteries Trust.document, memo, letter to secretary of fobc

Document. Submission to VCAT prepared by the FOBC 10/11 Feb 2005. Prepared by Carol Holsworth. Submission challenged Bendigo Cemeteries Trust application to remove nine peppercorn trees at the White Hills Cemetery. (17 pages).document, memo, submission to vcat

Document. Letter from Helen Bruinier (FOBC) to Chairman Golden Dragon Museum objecting to changes made to the FOBC, self guided Tour No 7 brochure without permission. Dated 14 Jan 2010.document, memo, letter from sec. fobc

Photograph. Coloured photograph of Headstone of Balthasar Heintz, Anna Koch, Francis Jacob Koch, Karl Koch. Karl Koch - Bendigo Cemetery?photograph, landscape, headstone

Photograph. Coloured photograph of a section of the cast iron fence at the White Hills Cemetery.photograph, landscape, fence at cemetery

Photograph. Copy of a coloured photograph of Matthew Michael Moran. Bendigo Cemetery Chapel building in the background with two original Magnolia trees in place.photograph, person, matthew michael moran

Photograph. Copy of a coloured photograph of a section of cast iron fence at Bendigo Cemetery.photograph, landscape, cast iron fence at cemetery

Photograph. Copy of a coloured photograph of two headstones at Bendigo Cemetery - BALLERSTADT and KOHNCKE.photograph, landscape, two headstones at bendigo cemetery

Photograph. Copy of a coloured photograph of a headstone surrounded by a cast iron fence.photograph, landscape, cast iron fence at cemetery

Photograph. Copy of a coloured photograph of Kewy headstone.photograph, landscape, copy of kewey headstone

Photograph. Copy of a coloured photograph of James Taylor headstone before and after restoring to upright position at White Hills Cemetery.photograph, landscape, copy of james taylor headstone

Photograph. Copy of photograph of JENSEN and KLUNDER headstones before and after restoring to upright position at White Hills Cemetery.photograph, landscape, copy of headstones

Photograph. Copy of a coloured photograph of SEWELL headstone before and after restoring to upright position at White Hills Cemetery.photograph, landscape, copy of sewell headstone

Photograph. Copy of a coloured photograph of roadway overgrown with weeds at White Hills Cemetery.photograph, streetscape, roadway overgrown of weeds

Photographs. Two pages of copies of coloured photographs of eight Funeral Towers: Beechworth Funeral Tower 2011. Vancouver Island BC Canada 1999. Bendigo Funeral Tower 2009. Maldon Funeral Tower 1995. Avoca Oven 1995. Dunolly Oven 1994. Castlemaine Funeral Tower 1995.photograph, landscape, copies of eight funeral towers

Photograph. Copy of a coloured photograph of Bendigo Cemetery Funeral Tower 1992.photograph, landscape, copy of bendigo cemetery tower

Photograph. Coloured photograph of a brick building in Castlemaine. Printed sign on building D.REDFEARN MONUMENTAL MASONS.photograph, streetscape, d.redfearn monumental masons

Brochure. Bendigo Remembrance Parks Notable Graves Tour Brochure.document, memo, brochure

Brochure. Eaglehawk Monumental Cemetery tour brochure. A tribute to some of the miners from Eaglehawk who lost their lives while on duty. Prepared by Bev Hanson and John Kelly 2014. Map on back of sheet.document, memo, brochure

Document. Set of brochures for Cemetery Tours produced by FOBC. Not all approved by Bendigo Cemeteries Trust at the time 1990-2010. Eaglehawk, Bendigo, Kangaroo Flat and White Hills Cemeteries.document, memo, brochures for cemeteries tours

Maps. Two maps of Bendigo Cemetery. (a) Bendigo Cemetery produced by Bendigo Cemeteries Trust. (b) Bendigo Remembrance Park produced by Remembrance Parks Central Victoria.map, bendigo, bendigo cemetery and remembrance park

Index, bibliography, notes, ill (maps), p.565.non-fictionPasschendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917, the worst year of the war- blackened tree stumps rising out of a field of mud, corpses of men and horses drowned in shell holes, terrified soldiers huddled in trenches awaiting the whistle. The intervening century, the most violent in human history, has not disarmed these pictures of their power to shock. At the very least they ask us, on the 100th anniversary of the battle, to see and to try to understand what happened here. Yes, we commemorate the event. Yes, we adorn our breasts with poppies. But have we seen? Have we understood? Have we dared to reason why? What happened at Passchendaele was the expression of the 'wearing-down war', the war of pure attrition at its most spectacular and ferocious. Paul Ham's Passchendaele- Requiem for Doomed Youth shows how ordinary men on both sides endured this constant state of siege, with a very real awareness that they were being gradually, deliberately, wiped out. Yet the men never broke- they went over the top, when ordered, again and again and again. And if they fell dead or wounded, they were casualties in the 'normal wastage', as the commanders described them, of attritional war. Only the soldier's friends at the front knew him as a man, with thoughts and feelings. His family back home knew him as a son, husband or brother, before he had enlisted. By the end of 1917 he was a different creature- his experiences on the Western Front were simply beyond their powers of comprehension. The book tells the story of ordinary men in the grip of a political and military power struggle that determined their fate and has foreshadowed the destiny of the world for a century. Passchendaele lays down a powerful challenge to the idea of war as an inevitable expression of the human will, and examines the culpability of governments and military commanders in a catastrophe that destroyed the best part of a generation. Collapse summary world war 1914-1918 - campaigns - western front, france - campaigns - passchaendaele

ill, p.279.non-fictionPoet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War. Written after the war and as he was leaving his birthplace, he thought, forever, Good-Bye to All That bids farewell not only to England and his English family and friends, but also to a way of life. Tracing his upbringing from his solidly middle-class Victorian childhood through his entry into the war at age twenty-one as a patriotic captain in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, this dramatic, poignant, often wry autobiography goes on to depict the horrors and disillusionment of the Great War, from life in the trenches and the loss of dear friends, to the stupidity of government bureaucracy and the absurdity of English class stratification.world war 1914-1918 - personal narratives - english, graves robert 1895-1985 - biography

p.284.fictionSomewhere out there Ellie and her friends are hiding. They're shocked, they're frightened, they're alone. Their world has changed, with the speed of a slamming door. They've got no weapons - except courage. They've got no help - except themselves. They've got nothing - except friendship. How strong can you be, when the world is full of people trying to kill you?juvenile fiction, war stories - juvenile fiction

Typed program for the Eaglehawk Dahlia and Arts Festival from 23rd March to Tuesday 4th April 1972. Program lists the displays and entertainment for the duration of the Festival.event, exhibition, eaglehawk dahlia & arts festival, eaglehawk dahlia and arts festival 1972 program, historical society museum, karl steinbergs puppet show, bendigo gem club, australian handicapped and disabled artists, country women’s association, sam cragg, sandhurst boys centre, spastic children's friends & parents committee, sir rohan delacombe, national dahlia society, eaglehawk y m c a all grade basket ball summer competition, game birds society, bushwackers and bullocky's bush band, eaglehawk bowling club, state services orchestra recital, alan paull, arts council of australia, chitrasana dancers from ceylon, eaglehawk croquet club, bendigo music advancement society, phillip miechel, henry wenig, margaret schofield, shirley jacobs, the german national circus, bendigo clay target club, bendigo photographic society, eaglehawk bowling club, kennel club, eaglehawk citizen's band, society of organists, bendigo field naturalists