It's almost like losing an old friend. As the Yass Museum closes down for the winter break the Yass and District Historical Society volunteers will be busy pulling down and relocating parts of the Alfred Shearsby temporary exhibition into the permanent exhibition.
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The Alfred Shearsby exhibit enabled visitors and especially local visitors, to discover this rather shy local man who did so much to put Yass on the map in the early twentieth century.
The almost full size image of Mr Shearsby with his geologist pick has stood guard in the Museum front room for almost eighteen months. Postcard copies of his extensive photographic record of the district and especially the building of Burrinjuck Dam, will still be available through the Yass Visitors Information Centre.
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The curator Cheryl Mongan and team wish to thank Peter Bindon, Tony and Diana McQuillan, Peter Kinsela of Young, Yass Lawn Tennis Club, Yass lodge of Concord and Westpac Bank for items loaned for the exhibition.
During the winter closure the new temporary exhibition featuring another local and national identity, the explorer Hamilton Hume, will be developed for the official Museum re-opening in October.
Much thought and hard work will go into selecting and interpreting items in the Museum collection relating to the achievements and life of Hume and his family. There will also be an ambitious revamp of the existing permanent collection.
So, the winter recess will be well used to continue to bring our local history to life. Meanwhile Alfred Shearsby will be moved, but not forgotten, into our permanent exhibit.
