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Joy Atkinson Monday, January 14th 2013 - 02:17:30 PM froggybellsfarm@hotmail.com Hi just moved to teh area and wanting to join a bushwalking club. Please let me know how and what you have on the program. Do you have regular meetings? Joy

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margaret anderson Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 11:11:30 PM uralla_nsw@yahoo.co.uk Hi I have recently returned to the area. I was a member of a qld bush walking group that undertook a walk every Sunday. I am missing this actiivty. I would like to join and start bush walking again. The most recent newsletter sdoesnt seem to suggest a date for the next walk...I am wondering when the next walk is on. Cheers Margi

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helen mcneill Friday, February 17th 2012 - 11:18:38 PM hlmcneill@hotmail.com

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Jodi Jardine Thursday, January 19th 2012 - 09:03:35 AM jodijardine1@dodo.com.au very imformative site and great links

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Keith Burgess Monday, August 8th 2011 - 08:29:13 PM historicaltrekker@gmail.com http://eighteenthcenturylivinghistory.freeforums.org/ The Courier. The official newsletter of the New England Colonial Living History Group 1680-1760. 8/8/1740 This newsletter is being produced mainly for other nonprofit community groups in the New England area. Despite using all the media outlets we can find, we are not reaching enough of the population in and around our area of Armidale. Other community services appear to have more contact than do social and recreational based groups like ours. We need to change that. Here is some information on our group: NECLHG Statement of Aims. We, the New England Colonial Living History Group are dedicated to the study of the New World frontier lifestyle by means of literary research and experimental archaeology. We are living historians, historical trekkers, and experimental archaeologists, studying and emulating to the best of our ability the period of 1680-1760. As is the purpose of an archaeologist, to establish facts about people in a particular time period, we establish facts and an understanding of the people and their lifestyle in the early to mid 18th century. This is accomplished through experimentation in various historical situations, often in a wilderness setting, by using clothing, arms and equipment that was used between 1680 and1760 on the New World frontier to accomplish historical tasks and everyday living activities that involve period living skills and primitive wilderness survival skills. Our reasons for choosing the New World in an earlier time period over Australia are: We have more choices available to us of: nationalities, personas, clothing styles, trades and occupations, skills and crafts, activities, scenarios for treks and camps, equipment. Also the atrocities committed against our Aboriginals was quite different to those made on Aboriginals in the New World, and we would find it difficult at best to enjoy living history based on an Australian lifestyle, let alone invite Aboriginals to join our group and participate in our activities. However, we are perfectly willing to help anyone who prefers to portray the early Australian lifestyle. Crafts and Skills. Crafts and skills are based on those used by a variety of nationalities, but the materials we use in these activities are Australian. The primitive wilderness survival skills we practice also include Australian native skills. We are able to learn and practice a wide variety of crafts and skills from various countries that were not present in Australia due to the nature of Australia’s early settlement. One of our aims is to keep these crafts and skills alive. We are not historical re-enactors involved in public displays; we practice our skills and experimental archaeology in the privacy of Wychwood Forest. We do however encourage the public to approach us for historical information, and we welcome enquiries for membership. Contact: Keith H. Burgess, Wychwood Forest, MSF 2007, Armidale 2350. Phone: 67 755 292. Email: historicaltrekker@gmail.com Our Group Forum: http://eighteenthcenturylivinghistory.freeforums.org/ A Woodsrunner’s Diary Blog: http://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com/

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Jang Friday, March 11th 2011 - 11:29:23 AM chajara33@hotmail.com Hi, I'm Jang, from Thailand and now studying and living in Armidale. I would like to join the Armidale bushwalking club. and I'm interesting the program on 20 March (Oxley Wild rivers). So what's is the process that I hv to go through to join this?

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rihi Tuesday, March 2nd 2010 - 09:08:08 PM night@mail-room.com helo all

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Keith H. Burgess Monday, July 20th 2009 - 02:41:59 PM historicaltrekker@gmail.com http://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com I have added a link to your site on the following sites: http://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com/ http://historicaltrekkers.ning.com/forum/topics/armidale-bushwalking-club http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_order_of_18thcentury_woodsman_chivalry/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/frontier_camping/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/colonial_camping/ http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/armidale-social-group/ Good information on your site, well done. Regards, Keith H. Burgess. Wychwood Forest.

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Keith H. Burgess Sunday, November 23rd 2008 - 09:40:47 AM historicaltrekker@gmail.com http://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com Very interesting and informative site, well done. I will use this information to improve our own sites. Living History & Historical Re-enactment Groups. What we are & what we do. Participating in living history is a way of experiencing a past lifestyle. Living history is about re-enacting a past lifestyle. You can choose your period, and a character you wish to emulate in that period. You wear the period clothes, and use the period equipment to accomplish period tasks. This can be anything from Historical Trekking & camping (which includes a wide variety of period & primitive skills),to other living history activities such as flint & steel fire lighting, open fire cooking, finger weaving, loom weaving, tomahawk throwing, & many other period living skills. Historical Trekking is trekking in period style. You wear period clothing, and you carry and use period equipment. Historical Trekking can cover any period, but mostly to date, it is 18th century only in Australia. Historical Re-enactment is mostly of a military nature and includes battle re-enactments and the lifestyle that revolves around those battles. All of the above activities tend to be family oriented, and can include a wide variety of interests, crafts and skills. If you were looking for an activity that the whole family can get involved in, together, then one of the above would be a good choice. Written to bring Living History & Historical Re-enactment to the attention of the general public Australia wide. Copyright Keith H. Burgess. New England Colonial Living History Group.

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Ron Watters Tuesday, February 12th 2008 - 09:05:11 PM wattersr@bigpond.net.au http://www.sbw.org.au Very informative site. I am an active leader with Sydney Bush Walkers and always looking for new places to walk on extended trips. Have started to research walking in Crawney Pass area south east of Nundle. Has your club done any walking there? Regards Ron

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jitka kopriva Saturday, February 2nd 2008 - 10:06:31 AM jitka@ozemail.com.au I'm very impressed with you site, lovely photos. We hope to walk in your area in March this year.

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Norma Jean Sunday, July 1st 2007 - 12:02:34 PM jotaboi@hotmail.com Interesting site. Those man of wars are vicious!!!

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