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History in the making

2/4/2020

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PictureThe Influenza Epidemic, Melbourne. Wood engraving by George Ashton. Published by David Syme & Co, 1890. Courtesy of State Library of Victoria
By Libby Skidmore
 
WE ARE living through interesting times. I hope that we are recording events and impressions of these times.
 
Here at the Bass Valley Historical Society, our most valuable archives are those first-hand accounts of events as they happen. We have an ear witness account of the explosion of Krakatoa volcano by Harold Hughes in 1883 when he was in Derby as a surveyor. We have the daily accounts and letters of the 1826 settlement at Corinella. We even have the more recent accounts of efforts to save the Corinella Jetty.

Photos and cuttings, artefacts and ephemera – all are valuable and worth collecting and recording.

​Imagine in 50 years’ time someone finding our archive and exclaiming at our efforts to protect our community during the COVID-19 epidemic!


Will they exclaim at how our sense of community and concern for one another’s welfare saved us? Will they wonder why it took so long to defeat the virus? Or even, in Star Wars mode, how we let such a thing happen!

I ask all our members and friends to record this world event. Save newspaper cuttings and photos, and record your impressions as we progress through each stage as dictated by our governments.
 
What did you do during the “Attack of the Virus”?

Me, I knitted a palm tree!
 
Libby Skidmore is secretary of the Bass Valley Historical Society. Email her at eskidmore@dcsi.net.au with photos and observations. ​
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