Newsletter

We have just published our latest newsletter in a new 12 page format to fit into the welcome pack given to every new member. You can view the newsletter on-line from here or from the publications' page on our website. Thanks to Jean, Joan, Vallie, Wynne for helping me fold, punch and post out the newsletters on Tuesday afternoon. We are going to continue Tuesday afternoon meetings - in Mark's tidy office - to carry out lots of different volunteering jobs.

Some of the jobs we need to do are:-

• Indexing Oral History, and the Generations Project
• New Oral History Recording
• Research and editingGazette Articles
• Creating a Display Stand for the Friends
• Recording introductions for Podcasts
• Planning and designing the Christmas Exhibition
• Planning and organising a talk on Alexander Falconer and the conservation of his portrait.
• Training for Eco Bin game before going "on tour" in local libraries
• Victorian Loan Box object research and photography

Any and all volunteers are welcome to join us

Easter at Forres House

Last wednesday Mark Macleod, our Project Development Officer, Joan and myself rolled up at Forres House, the local community centre to take part in an easter event for children organised by the staff at Forres House.

We took some objects with us which were (loosely) related to Easter - A Tawny Owl, Pheasant, Pipistrelle Bat, Stoat, Dog Whelk Eggs and an object that goes everywhere Mark goes - a fossilised elephant's tooth found by Hugh Falconer.

We had a competition to guess the mystery object (the elephant's tooth) with the prize of an easter egg going to the winner.

We also gave out some Friends' bookmarks which the kids snapped up. The picture shows Joan with some of the visitors to our stall. (Chris)