Millennium Forest

The new committee has been formed and is operating. Vanessa Yon, The Administrative Assistant of SHNT is now Secretary and Treasurer of this group also. I joined the Committee for a tour recently, and saw the Information boards with the names of all those who planted trees up to 2001. They need more, of course, as many continue to plant trees. More recently the 3 visitors from FCO planted 10 trees each, and mentioned how impressed they were by this project and the dedicated work of all involved, particularly Dr.Cairns-Wicks’ voluntary commitment to this project.

The gatehouse at the Millennium Forest

All Local Councillors will plant a tree in November, and the CPA delegation visited and were impressed by the project.

Musuem of St Helena

The Curator, Sarah Holland, left the island at the end of  September. Her flair and ideas have been greatly appreciated, and we look forward to the museum she has created continuing from strength to strength under the capable management of Lucy Caesar. We thank Sarah warmly for her contribution towards making the museum a friendly, exciting place to be, for all sectors of the population, and wish her well in whatever she does next.

On left - Family Names Exhibition at the museum

On right - ‘Bye Sarah - and thanks for a lively museum

Lucy will be able to put her experience in teaching, and her degree in Environmental Science to good use. They currently have an exhibition on Family Names and Nicknames. The Heritage Society is debating a museum committee, and we look forward to hearing more, and are assured of representation thereon. We are planning to remove the museum from our “Projects” and into the member organisation category.

Related Information

Project Reports May 2003

Projects Reports January 2004

Projects Reports April/May 2004

Projects Reports August 2004

Projects Reports November 2004

Project Reports Feburary 2005

Project Reports June 2005

Project Reports July 2006

Project Reports December 2006

Project Reports May 2007

Newsletter 17 Dec 2007

Flax Mill

It has been decided that, when we have the first Trust Council meeting after the AGM we will agree a working group to take this forward, and SNCG has suggested it would collate all the information available – tapes, slides, video. We intend to host a reminiscence session for former workers before the end of the year, so that all this can expand the display in the museum for now. We still hope to have a working flax mill some day.

Schools Project

Sarah has finished an initial General Resource Pack for each Middle School. I will continue with specific ones, seeking help when needed from Lucy, now that the AGM is out of the way. I hope to do these fairly quickly as I had lots of the research on hand, ready to be typed. I have also discovered that the scanner at the museum can scan slides onto computer, and thence to CD’s. Modern technology never ceases to fill me with wonder. I had been trying to find a way to do this, and now find it is here! If anyone out there hears of a good programme to transmit voice on tapes to computer text, please let me know. I believe the present ones are not very good., and we have several tapes to transcribe.