- Location: Cromwell Presbyterian Church, 10 Elspeth Street, Cromwell
- Start Date: Wednesday 16th Oct, 2024.
- End Date: Wednesday 16th Oct, 2024.
- Time: 10.00am - 12.00pm.
- 1 Weeks.
- 2 hours per week.
U3A Cromwell - Historic Stories from Southern Fiordland
Speaker: Sean Brosnahan
Seán Brosnahan has spoken to U3A Wanaka a number of times in recent years. He is a curator at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum in Dunedin and the presenter of many of the museum’s videos on its Youtube channel which you are recommended to check out. Seán descended from a number of pioneer miners from the Tuapeka, Dunstan and Mt Ida goldfields and always enjoys a visit to Central Otago.
In 2020 a team from Toitū spent a week in Dusky Sound exploring its fascinating early history to produce the web series Furthest Frontiers. In 2021 they returned to make a sequel, this time heading further south to Preservation and Chalky inlets to carry on our exploration of these historic sites of Maori and Pakeha exploration and adventure in New Zealand’s most remote region. This talk will tell the behind-the-scenes story of making these two Youtube series amidst the challenges of pandemic-era restrictions and drawing on the skills of specialist personnel from Heritage New Zealand, Toitū and Otago Museums, southern runaka and marine archaeologists. The remote reaches of Fiordland are difficult to access but contain numerous sites of importance to the early history of New Zealand. These two video series take you to key sites of that history and open up the stories of often forgotten incidents and characters whose interactions are imprinted on the landscape.
