{"id":71376,"date":"2014-06-19T21:57:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T11:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=71376"},"modified":"2020-11-30T13:25:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T03:25:22","slug":"girls-march-into-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/06\/19\/girls-march-into-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls March Into History"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71377\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140619marchinggirls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-71377\" title=\"20140618 Cherbourg Marching Girls\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140619marchinggirls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140619marchinggirls.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140619marchinggirls-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Many Threads&#8221; member Gloria Bell is working on one of the marching girl costumes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>June 19, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ration Shed Museum&#8217;s new sporting exhibition, which will be officially opened at Cherbourg next month, won&#8217;t just feature all the achievements of the town&#8217;s male inhabitants &#8230; there&#8217;s room for the women, too!<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rationshed.com.au\/play-the-ball-the-story-of-sport-in-cherbourg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Play the Ball exhibition<\/a><\/strong> will feature a &#8220;Wall Of Fame&#8221; in the old Boys Dormitory as well as a special room just for rugby league.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the boxing display, videos and loads of artefacts &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But Cherbourg&#8217;s marching girls haven&#8217;t been forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs of the girls&#8217; troops from the 1950s and 1960s show them sporting their crisp uniforms and ready to put on displays of marching skill.<\/p>\n<p>The women from Cherbourg&#8217;s &#8220;Many Threads&#8221; sewing group are now recreating some of these old uniforms in time for the official opening of the exhibition, which will take place on July 7 during NAIDOC Week.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition will be open to the public on the NAIDOC Fun Day on July 8.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related article: <a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/06\/cherbourg-boxers-were-champions\/\">Cherbourg Boxers Were Champions<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ration Shed Museum&#8217;s new sporting exhibition, which will be officially opened at Cherbourg next month, won&#8217;t just feature all the achievements of the town&#8217;s male inhabitants &#8230; there&#8217;s room for the women, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":71377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1135],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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