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Yearly Archives: 2019

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Grandfather’s birthday

EventsBy Janine RobertsDecember 22, 2019

Writers like Steele Rudd and Norman Lindsay have made much of the humorous side of Australian rural life in the late nineteenth century. A counterpoint to this humour was the hardship and tragedy endured and overcome by the Australians of that era…

Santa Claus at Tahlee House

Events, PlacesBy Janine RobertsDecember 22, 2019

Two days before Christmas 1927, an article appeared in NSW newspapers entitled ‘Santa Claus at Tahlee House’. It was a story set on Christmas Eve 1832 during the time when…

Christmas Bells at Crowdy Head

PlacesBy Janine RobertsDecember 9, 2019

Between Crowdy Head and Diamond Head is a great plain that has long been home to Australian wildflowers, particularly Christmas bells, Christmas bush and flannel flowers…

Former Rural Bank of NSW, Taree

BuildingsBy Janine RobertsNovember 30, 2019

On Tuesday 25 June 1935 at 10am the newly built Taree branch of the Rural Bank of NSW opened for general business. The opening of the bank…

Manning River VJ Sailing Club

BuildingsBy Janine RobertsNovember 25, 2019

Sailing resumed on the Manning River after WW2. When the VJ Club was established in 1947 it occupied the North Coast Steam Navigation Company wharf…

The Browns and The Big Hairs

PeopleBy Janine RobertsOctober 26, 2019

Each year on the third weekend in August in Montana USA, the Crow Fair begins. In 1992 during the Crow Fair, the Brown family from Taree were adopted into the Al and Ruby Big Hair family…

The Cloud Wallaby

ArtefactsBy Janine RobertsOctober 26, 2019

The Cloud Wallaby is a fable written and illustrated by Pixie O’Harris. It was published in The School Magazine in August 1949. It goes something like this…

Hills of Hate – a “lost film”

ArtefactsBy Janine RobertsOctober 24, 2019

“Hills of Hate” published by Angus and Robertson in 1925 was the debut novel of Australian author E V Timms. It tells the story of two feuding bush families…

New Years Day 1911

Events, PeopleBy Janine RobertsOctober 24, 2019

The Christmas holiday: traditionally a time for families to get together. Such was the case for Bartholomew Lyons…

Orara Kendall

PeopleBy Janine RobertsOctober 24, 2019

The Australian born poet Henry Kendall was born in 1839. Never physically robust…

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