The Pulpit Post – a Pulpit Hill local resident free newsletter series since 2006
Tuesday, May 27th, 2025We have decided to publish on this website the short series of ‘The Pulpit Post‘ newsletters that we authored, published, printed and hand-distributed to residents of Pulpit Hill from nearly two decades ago.
Pulpit Hill is geographical feature with an historical 19th Century naming.
This hill is situated 2.4 km westward of the Australian regional township of Katoomba along the Great Western Highway in the Blue Mountains. It was once clearly identifiable from miles around by having a geologically tall sandstone pagoda atop its summit.
So its eponym was applied by then New South Wales Governor Lachlan Macquarie [1810-1821] in 1815 as he then journeyed to inspect the continent’s first ever inland route over the otherwise impenetrable Blue Mountains barrier then via Mount York and further westward to his to be thence named ‘Macquarie River’ and its rich and fertile river valley’s hope of the future vital agricultural lands as promise survival of the fledgling colony back at Sydney Cove.
The Pulpit Post newsletter was established by The Habitat Advocate in 2006, borrowing the concept from observing a pre-existing physical metal post hand-painted ‘Pulpit Post’ by a local resident for the benefit of immediately relevant news updates for local residents of this small rural community, outlying of Katoomba. We have photos of this.
From a first Winter 2006 edition, we managed at the time to sustain just six issues all up on what we had hoped would be issued on a seasonal basis of sorts.
These herewith are those six issues of The Pulpit Post. They were originally intended for the few dozen of so local residents of this small rural community around Pulpit Hill, but now in 2025 one considers that their content and concept deserves sharing with all, always free of charge, as is our principle.
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Many further draft issues of this newsletter were prepared at the time. We may consider completing them.
We may also consider continuing to publish further issues ongoing but instead only online on this website.
Such decisions depend upon what supportive feedback we receive.
