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Visit by Dr Greg Moore will be on Sunday 22 June, at 2 pm in the Visitors Centre Churchill Island ... See MoreSee Less

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Special Event: Visit by Dr Greg Moore
We are delighted to announce a special FOCIS event on Sunday 22 June on Churchill Island. We will host a visit by Dr Greg Moore who is the Chair of the National Trust Register of Significant Trees.
Dr Moore is the former principal of Burley Horticultural College. For more than three decades, Dr Greg Moore has worked to raise awareness of Australia’s arboreal heritage and protect it, if necessary, from the axe. As Dr Moore sees it, the register is formal recognition of what many of us already feel about the value not only of the especially unique specimens that make it on to it, but trees generally.
“When it comes to trees, people tend to understand that they’re important, even if they haven’t articulated or rationalised their attitude,” Moore says. “Trees are markers and totems in our lives and in our landscapes — most of us have some sort of connection with them.”
Dr Moore last visited Phillip Island as the guest of the Friends of the Golden Cypresses in July last year. Pauline Taylor, president of the Friends of Golden Cypresses is also a FOCIS committee member and has been instrumental in arranging this event. This picture shows Dr Moore and Pauline. ... See MoreSee Less

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In the days before television the locals would dress in their finery and head off to their local hall each weekend to dance the night away. After a big supper of cakes and scones provided by all the good cooks in the district, they’d all wander home in time to milk the cows in the morning! Thanks to wind-up gramophones, which often used boxthorns as needles to play 78 rpm records everyone managed to keep up with the latest music trends in Australian and overseas. Lots of people also played instruments, and formed bands to play at the dances.
in the days before television the locals would dress in their finery and head off to their local hall each weekend to dance the night away. After a big supper of cakes and scones provided by all the good cooks in the district, they’d all wander home in time to milk the cows in the morning! Thanks to wind-up gramophones, which often used boxthorns as needles to play 78 rpm records everyone managed to keep up with the latest music trends in Australian and overseas. Lots of people also played instruments, and formed bands to play at the dances.

At the next FOCIS May 10 General Meeting, starting at 1.30 in the Churchill Island Visitor Centre function room, Friends of Churchill Island Society will pay tribute to this era.

In the 1930s, even the two bachelor Jeffery brothers resident on Churchill Island rowed or went by horse and jinker at low tide across the tea tree track to near St Paul’s Boys Home to dance with the local ladies at Newhaven hall. The larger guest houses on Phillip Island also had ballrooms, or wide verandahs for dancing.
The speaker will be Cape Woolamai resident Kate Cleeland, whose great aunt Reita Cleeland married Ted Jeffery, who worked on Churchill Island with Bob for Gerald Buckley from 1929-1936. They very likely met at a local dance.
Although Kate has a background in choirs, musicals and historic and ballroom dance, she fell in love with jazz through George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Monthly practice sessions with Ventnor resident John Eddy on guitar led to them learning six Gershwin songs together. Kate will include recordings of these in her talk.
All welcome. For more information and to RSVP, contact FOCIS secretary Christine Grayden. E: secretary@focis.org.au or phone/text M 0400 900 612.
Photo of l-r: Noeline, Oelena and Kate, who play the piano every Friday in the Amess House dining room at Churchill Island. Kate will talk about the Gershwin era at the May FOCIS General Meeting.

Here In the 1930s, even the two bachelor Jeffery brothers resident on Churchill Island rowed or went by horse and jinker at low tide across the tea tree track to near St Paul’s Boys Home to dance with the local ladies at Newhaven hall. The larger guest houses on Phillip Island also had ballrooms, or wide verandahs for dancing.

The speaker will be Cape Woolamai resident Kate Cleeland, whose great aunt Reita Cleeland married Ted Jeffery, who worked on Churchill Island with Bob for Gerald Buckley from 1929-1936. They very likely met at a local dance.

Although Kate has a background in choirs, musicals and historic and ballroom dance, she fell in love with jazz through George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Monthly practice sessions with Ventnor resident John Eddy on guitar led to them learning six Gershwin songs together. Kate will include recordings of these in her talk.

All welcome. For more information and to RSVP, contact FOCIS secretary Christine Grayden. E: secretary@focis.org.au or phone/text M 0400 900 612.
Photo of l-r: Noeline, Oelena and Kate, who play the piano every Friday in the Amess House dining room at Churchill Island. Kate will talk about the Gershwin era at the May FOCIS General Meeting. ... See MoreSee Less

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The next FOCIS General meeting will be on Saturday 10 May at 1.30 pm in the Churchill Island Visitors centre. Kate Cleeland will tell about and sing some of the music of George Gershwin accompanied by John Eddy.

Gershwin’s music would have been popular at local dances attended by Churchilll Island residents in the 1929s and 1930 s. Join us for some entertaining nostalgia. ... See MoreSee Less

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