Dot has it pretty well down pat. So I'll just add that 'doing our thing' at the museum was a bit more than walking about looking at old military stuff.
When we visited Meandarra in 2015 for the ANZAC Centenary dawn service, we noted that the museum here
("a million dollar museum in a fifty dollar town" as one of the locals put it) had one volume of the Melbourne Herald Sun's post-war series of six books: 'The First Year of War in Pictures', 'The Second Year of War in Pictures', 'The Third...' . You get the picture.
(pardon the pun.
)
We had all
six volumes, collected from the Parental Home after SWMBO's parents passed away. They had been gathering dust on our bookshelves for more than 25 years. So we decided they'd be of more use in a museum with an attached library.
We missed the 2016 ANZAC dawn service due to my medical appointments...
We missed the 2017 ANZAC dawn service due to my inability to walk without a walking frame.
We
FINALLY managed to get away a week ago, heading for Cairns for a holiday with Son-and-Heir and his family... so we decided to swing by Meandarra to donate the books.
We did it today, and the Librarian/Museum Curator was most pleased to accept them.
They are in virtually pristine condition, and the librarian is sure that researchers will find them a valuable resource. Schoolchildren will also benefit from access to them. It will show them
exactly what WW11 was about.
We might head on tomorrow, then again, we might stay another day.

Tanks, we
are on our way... sometime soon.
