On The Rocks

It’s back! . . . After first being released in 1969, the fabulous historical novel by Victor Keating has been republished by the Nepean Historical Society.

Purchase Your Copy:

At the Sorrento Museum . . . We’re open Saturdays 10:30am to 1:30pm

or . . . at the 1803 Collins Settlement Centre

or . . . online at the NHS Shop HERE. Buy online and get free delivery to Portsea, Sorrento and Blairgowrie.

Letter to Portsea from Gallipoli

Wednesday 24 April 5:30 – 7:00pm

In association with the Sorrento Writers Festival

Letter from Alfred Keys, who was born at the Quarantine Station, to his father, May 1915 giving a first hand account of his landing at ANZAC Cove with the 5th Battalion AIF. Read by noted author Michael Veitch with narration by Sorrento Museum’s Clive Smith.

” . . . my account is a better one always than Captain Bean ever writes, so I’ll make the best of a bad job and set right in. . .” Alfred ‘Tom’ Keys 28.5.1915

Book at Trybooking – HERE

At SORRENTO MUSEUM, 827 Melbourne Rd. Sorrento