UNEARTHED - ACT Heritage Festival 2025
1 May 2025
The moving story of Charlie SIGVART - an Original ANZAC
The theme of this year's ACT Heritage Festival is UNEARTHED. We have three displays linked to this theme:
- a very moving story of a WWl veteran with Hall Village connections. His story and family artefacts from the time have been 'uneathed' for the first time and are on display for visitors
- items from our Gillespie Collection which have never been previously displayed
- a number of items literally unearthed with a metal detector from the old Palmerville site, near today's suburb of Giralang
Sunday 4th May @ 11 am will be a launch of two new books related to the Gillespie Collection:
2025 Facsimile edition of Ginninderra: Forerunner to Canberra ($30)
2025 Biographical booklet Lyall L. Gillespie: historian and gatherer ($10)
These two books will be on sale at a reduced price at the launch so come along and enjoy the new displays and a moring tea with us after the launch