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Harking back to a tradition that began 70 years ago, and following a suitably respectable interval, it's on again --

Back to BACK-TO's!!!!!



Walhalla Heritage Weekend
... Melbourne Cup Weekend 2009 ...
Saturday October 31st - Sunday November 1st
Put an entry in your diary today!

September 4th, 2009. Towards the end of the 1930s, former residents of Walhalla banded together to run "Back to Walhalla" weekends, chartering trains and buses to the town for a gala day of festivities to celebrate their former mountain community, progressively abandoned after 1915. It was these events that led after the war to the formation of the "Walhalla Improvement League", and from that organization, to the Walhalla Heritage League, the precursor to today's Walhalla Heritage and Development League. Back-To the Long Tunnel Yard, 1932 (No, not photographed from a helicopter ....) "BACK TO's" going forward Starting this year, and from 2009 onward, the Walhalla Heritage and Development League intends once again to hold an annual ‘Walhalla Heritage’ or ‘Back to Walhalla’ weekend. This weekend will include an indoor market, local bands playing throughout the town during the weekend, plus Halloween celebrations. Our committee also hopes to have a number of Walhalla's notable buildings open for inspection. 1943 Back-To in Stringer's Park So plan to   B E   T H E R E   for what should be a solid day or two of serious reminiscing about the good old days in our beautiful old gold town! Come along and be amazed at what we've achieved in keeping it alive. To tell the truth, we're not really expecting too many of the original participants to show up, but if anything, the many thousands of visitors we see ever year suggest to us that there should be even more people out there nowadays who can claim some degree of association with the town. So if you were born there, or lived there, or your parents were (or did), or your great-great-grandfather was "in the mines" there, or you once thought you knew someone who might once have said that they'd been somewhere near some place that sounded like it could have been Walhalla (or even just wished they had!), come up and see us, now that it's Spring and the valley is again in bloom. 1945 Back-To in the Treasury Gardens, Melbourne Plan now to be in Walhalla on Saturday, October 31st or November 1st, 2009 for the long-anticipated return of what we hope will again become an annual Walhalla event. You certainly don't have to dress the part, but by all means, feel free to come along dressed in turn-of-the-(last-)century costume, with your straw boaters and parasols in keeping with the Gold Era theme of the day. Or come as you are ... What the heck! Just COME!!! Itinerary October 31st Halloween Children’s ghost tour 7.00pm until 7.45 Cost $12.00 per head, parents free Each child will receive a bag of lollies at the end of the tour. Prizes awarded to the 3 best fancy dress outfits. October 31st Halloween Howling -- Dinner and ghost tour. Cost $70.00 7.00pm to 8.30pm, prizes for best 3 fancy dress costumes. Ghost tour from 8.30 pm November 1st Indoor market in Mechanics Institute Hall Stall holder cost: $20.00 per table -- 14 tables available. To book, phone 5165 6250 WH&DL fundraiser Public entry will be by gold coin donation. Bookmark this page, and check back from time to time for further updates. To find out the latest developments, or to assist in the promotion of this event, please contact ... WALHALLA POST OFFICE AND MUSEUM on (03) 5165 6250 or contact the organizers today via an email to the Corner Store and Gold Museum.

The Long Tunnel Jubilee Cannon (Pssst! We're also hoping for a firing of the Long Tunnel Jubilee Cannon during the weekend, too....)

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