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Meet the Authors

Wednesday 28 August 11am-12:30pm

Aspley Hornets Football Club – 50 Graham Road Carseldine

We're celebrating Family History Month with a special event: Meet the Authors.

Brought to you by the QFHS Family History Writing Group, Meet the Authors is for everyone interested in Queensland local and family history, and the writing thereof.

The event will showcase three published authors of Queensland local and family histories.

They will be interviewed about their inspiration, experiences, and writing process from inception to publication. 

There will be ample opportunity to ask questions, purchase copies of the books and have authors sign your copy personally.

Meet the authors:

Catherine Smith is a graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Brisbane College of Advanced Education, James Cook University, Victoria University and Deakin University. Among the youngest of 38 first cousins, she listened to stories from within the extended family and produced the biographical work Queensland's Sugar King: The Zammit Legacy - a story which holds significance for the history of North Queensland and fills an important gap in the history of pre-WWI European migration.

Karen Rosser is a fourth-generation Tamborine Mountain local who grew up on a dairy farm on the South End. Her grandfather, Stan Rosser, was just five years old when his family came to The Mountain in 1896, and her father, Allan Rosser, aged 97, still lives there today. An avid historian and bush lover who has travelled extensively, Karen is a retired science and mathematics teacher who now lives in North Queensland with her husband Darby Monro. She has just published Wangalpong to Mt Tamborine. Volume 1: the Moreton Bay story.

Sylvia Bannah grew up in Gordonvale, a sugar town in Far North Queensland, before moving to Brisbane to further her education. After bringing up a family and working for many years as Librarian at Family Planning Queensland, she completed a PhD on the organisation’s history at the University of Queensland in 2010 and shortly after, retired to Boreen Point. Intrigued by the history that she found all around her in this tiny town in the Noosa hinterland, she dug and delved, and in 2021 self-published Boreen Point…not just any small town: a history 1871-2021. She then turned her attention to her father’s family history which had been evolving since the late 1990s and was published in 2023 as What’s in a name and where did we come from? The Louis family from 1778. She continues to pursue her interest in local and family history. Sylvia is the winner of this year's QFHS Family History Book Award.

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