Boorowa District Historical Society Inc And Museum Celebrates 50 Years

Darrell Armour receives his award from Mayor Brian Ingram and Museum President Stephen Meere (centre).

Over 90 people turned up to help celebrate Boorowa District Historical Society Inc and Museum’s 50th birthday on Saturday, November 9.

Secretary Sharon Meere said the open day celebration was a great success with almost 100 people going through the Museum and looking at the displays.

“Many were locals and it was their first visit to the Museum and from the comments that were made everyone was impressed,” Ms Meere said.

“We had Steph Cooke, Member for Cootamundra and Mayor Brian Ingram from Hilltops Council in attendance as well as both local Councillors Jo Mackay and James Blackall.”

Ms Meere said that former Mayor Margaret Roles and former Councillor John Piper, both of whom were instrumental in getting work done at the Museum, were in attendance on the day. “We had many past and present members in attendance as well as local visitors,” Ms Meere said.

“We had a couple of surprises planned and one was to give local Darrell Armour an Honorary Membership of the Museum as he has done an incredible amount of work for us in the way of cupboards, display cabinets and photo frames.”

The second surprise was to present their Research Officer Helen McGrath with Life Membership of the Museum for her more than 500 researches for families, buildings and general history of the town since COVID. She is still a very valuable member of the Museum.

If you haven’t yet visited the Boorowa Museum, don’t wait for the next open day - get yourself over there and have a look at the terrific displays.