It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at appleyard college for young ladies agreed it was just right for a Picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into th...It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at appleyard college for young ladies agreed it was just right for a Picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of hanging rock.