Harvey Who's Who
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Each month we have an opportunity to get together at:
- monthly meetings on the 2nd Monday at the Mittagong RSL (opposite Ironstone Café) Arrive at 10.15am. Order a coffee on your way in, listen to an engaging guest speaker and catch up on local news, recent activities and upcoming outings. You can than join other members for lunch after the meeting if you have the time.
- Craft days - 4th Friday of the month at Bargo Sports Club 10am
- Coffee and Chat - 4th Tuesday of the month at local cafes 10.30am
- Munch Club - 1st Monday at a variety of interesting venues across Wollondilly and Wingecarribee. 12pm
- Special Outings these are events that our members are interested in attending but would like to do so with friends. These outings vary, as an example we have recently attended a show at the Performing Art Centre in Picton, a Musical in Sydney and visited a Scottish Highland Cow Farm
Interested in finding out more? Were interested in meeting you!
Phone 0400824670, Email bargoprobusclub@gmail.com
or just turn up at a meeting on the first Monday of the month.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Harvey
🌿 May Gibbs
Children’s author and illustrator May Gibbs spent part of her childhood on the Harvey Estate after her family moved there in 1885. She later created Snugglepot and Cuddlepie and the broader world of the gumnut babies. Harvey’s heritage account identifies her childhood residence and regards the surrounding bush as an influence on her imaginative characters.
Gibbs remembered the Harvey River farm as a particularly happy part of childhood. She wandered through bushland, swam, fished and searched for frogs before the family moved to Perth. Those close encounters with Australian plants and animals later fed an imaginative world of bush babies and banksia characters. The small-scale adventures beside the river give a lively background to the much larger adventures she eventually put on the page.
🎭 Jack Davis
Poet and playwright Jack Davis grew up at Yarloop before years of stock work and a later move into full-time writing in Perth. He had begun writing as a teenager, but The First Born, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1970. Plays including The Dreamers and No Sugar brought Aboriginal experiences to audiences in Australia and overseas. No Sugar follows a family confronting discrimination during the Great Depression, turning public history into the lives and arguments of recognisable people. Davis also took a prominent role in Indigenous rights. His literary career developed through working life and community knowledge, rather than arriving fully formed from an early publishing success.
🩺 Vicki Hobbs
Vicki Hobbs included Harvey Hospital among her nursing appointments in the years before the Second World War. Military service then carried her through demanding postings overseas and within Australia, followed by a substantial career teaching nurses. Retirement brought another project: collecting oral histories and writing about the development of nursing in Western Australia. Her humour and eye for the ridiculous helped make her approachable to students and colleagues. Harvey’s association is a documented hospital job, one of the workplaces that preceded her effort to ensure that nurses’ experiences were recorded rather than quietly forgotten.
