Meeting Schedule
HOW TO JOIN:
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Attend any ACWRTQ monthly meeting or public event attended by the ACWRTQ, complete a membership form and make your fee payment directly to the club treasurer. 2018 Fees: individual $20 p.a or family $30 p.a.
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Contact Jack Ford on 3266 3534 or jackford@bigpond.net.au and he will post you a membership form to complete. Then post this form plus a cheque/money order to: ACWRTQ treasurer, 7 Station Avenue, Northgate, Qld. 4013.
ACWRTQ MEETINGS:
The American Civil War Round Table of Qld holds a meeting on the third Thursday of the month (except December) at the downstairs (Submariners Association (Qld) Room) of the Coorparoo RSL & Community Club located at 45 Holdsworth Street, Coorparoo 4151. Ph. 33979955. Meetings commence at 7.30 PM with a guest speaker or other presentation and conclude at 9 PM.
2018 MEETINGS/EVENTS
15 March 2018 Guest Speaker: Danny Allsopp “PATRICK CLEBURNE, Boy General of the Confederacy”
April: THE BUGLE No.71
19 April Guest Speaker: Jack Ford “The naval battle of Memphis 6 June 1862”
6 May at the Nundah & Districts Historical Society’s ‘Sir William Knox Archives’, Nundah Library. Guest Speaker Jack Ford “The A.C.W.R.T.Q. and the 24 American Civil War veteran’s graves located across Queensland”
17 May Guest Speaker: John Duncan “My Journey through Civil War America”
June; THE BUGLE No.72
9-10 June "HISTORY ALIVE: a Journey through Time” at Fort Lytton National Park, Lytton: The A.C.W.R.T.Q. mounted a static display camp, in the usual site location. It had a , ‘Sutler’s Store’ to sell & giveaway club items to the public. We gave 2 public talks on American Civil War topics, each day 12-12.30 pm..
21June No guest speaker being the Annual General Meeting (A.G.M.) but a ‘Show & Tell’ session was held instead.
9 July Guest Speaker: Stephen Booker-Mclay “The 1863-65 Stoneman Cavalry Raids The Saltworks Campaign 1864: Salt, Sweat and Tears”
August: THE BUGLE No.73
16 August Guest Speaker: Bruce Dodd "American Civil War Mystery Quiz"
20 September Guest Speakers: Shane & Donna Eadie "old US company scrapbook found in Brisbane industrial bin"
18 October: Guest Speaker: Arthur Rentoul "Americans buried at Dunwich, Stradbroke Is."
27 October Southside History Network conference, Sunnybank Library
15 November no guest speaker as it was A.C.W.R.T.Q. Christmas Feast & Film Night screeneing "DRUMS OF THE DEEP SOUTH" (1951)
December: THE BUGLE double issue No.74
2019 MEETINGS/EVENTS
17 January Show & Tell/Auction: Guest Sheryl Backhouse donating 2 boxes of ACW books. Proceeds to our club
21 February Guest Speaker: Danny Allsopp "Two Remarkable Civil War Heroines"
THE BUGLE No. 75 due
21 March Guest Speaker: Jack Ford "Vicksburg Park 45 years ago"
31 March Membershio Fee due
18 April Guest Speake: John Duncan "All at Sea- sortie against Union naval blockade March 1862"
THE BUGLE No.76 due
16 May guest speaker
8-9 June display at "HISTORY ALIVE", Rocklea Showgrounds
20 June Annual General Meeting
THE BUGLE No.77 due
18 July guest speaker
15 August guest speaker
THE BUGLE No.78 due
19 September guest speaker
17 October guest speaker
THE BUGLE No.79 due
21 November no guest speaker instead Christmas feast & Civil War film night
December THE BUGLE No.80 due
Other events to be announced