Ingenuity and co-operation applied

With volunteer design and construction skills completed, others added their labour to build the exhibit. This echoed the tasks undertaken by their parents 60 years earlier. The magnitude of the original homebuilding was apparent. The volunteers applied the same skills of co-operation, ingenuity and “sweat equity” although to a much smaller degree. After months of preparation the text, photos and videos brought the story to life. Using museum and donated items, the museum team created a home setting to tell the women’s story. The original time clock was donated and delivered from Tasmania by a co-op son and became the gathering point of the exhibit.

Co-op sons-in-laws Andre Goselin and Paul Ames set framing unit in place.

Co-op son Andrew Gallagher assembles display shelving.