{"id":2428,"date":"2020-12-06T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2022-11-18T15:18:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T04:48:28","slug":"history-and-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?p=2428","title":{"rendered":"History and Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While COVID-19 has had its challenges for us all, even here in lucky South Australia, it has also given some of our authors the opportunity to produce more stories for the Gateways section of our website. Elisabeth Anderson, Chris Chardon, John McGregor and others have been busy researching and bringing to light more interesting stories for us all to enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the joys and frustrations of historical research is the uncovering of an unexpected and apparently unsolvable mystery. Read about one of these in the new article about Crafers Primary School<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do you remember Dragan Miljanovic<\/a> or perhaps you’re unfamiliar with him and his contributions to the district? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And have you ever heard of Felix House<\/a>, one of the many guest houses which took advantage of the desire of Adelaideans to escape the city for some cool and refreshing country air? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep up to date with all of these stories and more by checking in to the ever expanding content of the Gateways<\/a> section of our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While COVID-19 has had its challenges for us all, even here in lucky South Australia, it has also given some of our authors the opportunity to produce more stories for the Gateways section of our website. Elisabeth Anderson, Chris Chardon, John McGregor and others have been busy researching and bringing to light more interesting stories … Continue reading “History and Mystery”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNLq6-Da","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":620,"url":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?p=620","url_meta":{"origin":2428,"position":0},"title":"Tried, Tested and True; treasured recipes and stories from Australian Community Cookbooks","date":"September 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This presentation entitled\u00a0\"Tried, Tested & True\"\u00a0is being hosted jointly by the\u00a0Friends of the Library Stirling\u00a0and the\u00a0MLDHS\u00a0with the guest presenter\u00a0Liz Harfull\u00a0sharing her stories of treasured recipes and untold stories from Australian Community Cookbooks.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/presentation1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":659,"url":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?p=659","url_meta":{"origin":2428,"position":1},"title":"“Stories & Songs of Christmas”; Friday 30th November","date":"November 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, It's our final event for 2018 time to join us for another delightful evening with Janet\u00a0Leitch\u00a0as she shares with us all,\u00a0 the \"The Stories and Songs of Christmas\".\u00a0\u00a0 Janet entertained us at last year's final event and because everyone had such a marvellous time, she has agreed to return\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/xmas-2018.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1739,"url":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?p=1739","url_meta":{"origin":2428,"position":2},"title":"Isolation brings out the Writers","date":"April 20, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Some of our members are finding that isolation is inspiring them to take up past skills, explore new ones, work through the backlog of tasks at home or in this case, write an article for our Gateways or other web pages. 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