Movies at the Muni - history talk

At the Landmarks History Group on Tuesday 11 November Michael Fowler talked about "Moving pictures in the Hastings Municipal Theatre".

The "The Reel Story: A history of Napier and Hastings Cinemas 1896 - 1996" by Michael Fowler and David Turnbull also had it's Hastings launch at this meeting.

The Landmarks History Group have held a very interesting series of talks this year in the library. Read more at their website: http://www.hastingsdc.govt.nz/sites/localhistory/.

Also the Landmarks History Group Blog gives a more in-depth account of each speaker and their topics.

Hastings Blossom Festival

Hastings has celebrated Spring with a Blossom Festival since 1950.

During this year's Blossom Festival week (Sept 14-23) we had a display in Hastings Library showing the history of the festival, and featured copies of the Hawke's Bay Photo News from this era.

Please ask at the Reference Desk upstairs to see our issues of the Photo News. We do have some gaps in our collection, so if you have any copies of the Hawke's Bay Photo News we would love to have them.

See also the new page on the library website: http://www.hastingsdc.govt.nz/libraries/blossom_festival.htm