Summer Bridge is out
This follows an enforced break in the print version since the March issue due to coronavirus, an April edition was confined to online only.
The lead story is about the launch of another coronavirus-delayed publication, Kilcullen Before our Time, the book published by the Kilcullen 700 Committee to have a record of the town's year of celebration in 2019, especially the content of the Heritage Talks.
Also, the issue is something of a Coronavirus Special, with several pages devoted to the businesses and volunteer and other services which helped keep Kilcullen going during the main restrictions.
On the same subject, regular contributor Julie Felsbergs ponders on The World Re-Booting, what happens next? An interesting question indeed, and we'll be seeing some answers over coming months.
Other regulars include the KWWSPCA page, which includes a weather-timely piece of advice on keeping your dog cool. KCA news is mostly devoted to Kilcullen In Bloom, which is showing its colour splendour through the town now. Mary Orford writes about Florence B Jack, who published The Woman's Book in 1911 ('contains everything a woman ought to know'). Sean Landers muses from Taiwan on Donald Trump, coronavirus, and problems about coming home.
With the local walking restrictions that were in place in the early part of the lockdown, Noel Clare became very familiar with the Valley and the Mass Path circuit, and he provides a detailed and fascinating account this month, which adds to the local historical knowledge base as well as making the walk more meaningful.
The colour feature this issue is some of the work of the Kilcullen Photography Club, who show that restrictions on movement didn't cramp their images innovation. Some lovely work here.
Obviously the schools pages reflect how their year ended under the coronavirus cosh, but there's a lot of positivity and looking forward there. Sport is limited to Pitch & Putt and Tennis, both of which got an early reopening.
Other features include how a tiny bead found on Dun Ailinne may have changed some earlier ideas about that important archaeological site. There's also an update on the Kilcullen Pollinator Plan in an interview with Paul Leighton.
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