It was a “kilt-wearing occasion” 150-years ago today when the unadorned timber doors of the coppery-coloured stone church opened to all comers as a rather rare Presbyterian “kirk” in the Canberra region, writes NICHOLE OVERALL.
Nichole Overall
Nichole Overall is a Queanbeyan-based journalist, author and social historian.
Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL looks at how the fear from the bombing of Darwin in February 1942 made it to the backyards of Canberra.
In this short history of lawn bowls, Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL pays tribute to the survival of the Queanbeyan Bowling Club, which turns 90 this month.
"Known from its inception as the Queanbeyan and District Soldiers’ Memorial, as country town monuments go, at 11 metres high, it’s an impressive one," writes "Yesterdays" columnist NICHOLE OVERALL.
Social historian and journalist NICHOLE OVERALL shares the story of Queanbeyan's Boer War memorial and its long journey from Monaro Street to the Moore Park Memorial Rose Garden.
"Happy birthday to Queanbeyan, our Cinderella City – less the wicked stepmother, more the unassuming little sister who upstages as the belle of the ball," writes columnist NICHOLE OVERALL, who you'd never guess lives in Queanbeyan.
Meet Ivy Weber, born in Captains Flat and the inaugural president of the Women for Canberra movement, who proved to be a “remarkably effective force for... Australian unity”. NICHOLE OVERALL looks at the life of this forgotten activist.
A 103-year-old, World War II veteran and widow will be one of 54 torch bearers for the Legacy Centenary Torch Relay as it makes its way through Canberra on Monday.
Local historian NICHOLE OVERALL previews the arrival of Legacy's centenary torch relay and remembers Queanbeyan's long contribution to the cause.
To mark the 30th anniversary of “CityNews”, social historian and journalist NICHOLE OVERALL has written an eclectic history of Canberra and beyond over the past three decades. Here is 2022.
To mark the 30th anniversary of “CityNews”, social historian and journalist NICHOLE OVERALL has written an eclectic history of Canberra and beyond over the past three decades. Here is 2021.
To mark the 30th anniversary of “CityNews”, social historian and journalist NICHOLE OVERALL has written an eclectic history of Canberra and beyond over the past three decades. Here is 2020.
