The History of Blackball - Blackball and the Gold

Join us at the library for the second of four talks about the History of Blackball told by award-winning writer and historian Stevan Eldred-Grigg.

This talk will cover Blackball and Gold, from the 1860s to 1880s.

Stevan Eldred-Grigg is an award-winning writer, author of some of the best-selling works of New Zealand history, and of leading New Zealand novels. His works of fiction and non-fiction explore the West Coast, Canterbury, the wider South Island and the whole of New Zealand. He also writes about Samoa, Shanghai, Mexico and Australia.