- Hoorah for our missionaries!
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- By Rachel Hoffmann
- 2 August 2012
‘The peculiar nature of the language spoken’: relics of South Australian languages is an exhibition documenting South Australian Aboriginal languages, including Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri, Barngarla, Dieri and Aranda, and their recording thereof by colo...
- Wheel-life faith: Wendish descendants retrace wagon trek
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- By Sheree Schmaal
- 14 May 2012
Descendants of eight Wendish families have come together to retrace their ancestors’ physical and spiritual journey from South Australia to Victoria.
In April 1852, eight Wendish migrant families—Deutscher, Petschel, Albert, Huf, Burger, Hundrack,...
- No longer Poles apart
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- By Lois Zweck
- 11 May 2012
When curator Anitta Maksymowicz began preparing the exhibition Between Fear and Hope in 2004 for the Museum of the Lubuska Land in Zielona Gora (Prussian Grünberg), Poland, she never imagined where it would lead her.
The unknown story of the 19th...
- Pathfinders and ponderers: schools history book launched
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- By Linda Macqueen
- 22 March 2012
Great educators share many fine attributes, and one of the most important is a propensity to ponder.
Indeed, pondering can be powerful, said lover of alliteration Dr Richard Hauser, at the launch of his second book about Lutheran schooling in Aust...
- Ringing true: Strehlow book sets mission record straight
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- By Lyall Kupke
- 15 February 2012
On Sunday afternoon 12 February the book, The Tale of Frieda Keysser by John Strehlow was launched at Australian Lutheran College by Ms Alison Anderson, Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. Her electorate of Macdonnell in Central...
- 'To have and to hold': Archives brings back the memories
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- By Rachel Hoffmann
- 1 July 2011
The Lutheran Archives is exhibiting a display illustrating the traditions of Lutheran marriage.
The story begins with G J Rechner’s marriage register written in a mixture of English and German: English for the civil requirements (occupation and m...