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Sergeant Ian Affleck

Events, PeopleBy Janine RobertsApril 24, 2023

Ian Affleck thrived at the Black Head Surf Life Saving Club; achieving his Junior Qualifying Certificate in 1933 aged 14, his Bronze Medallion in 1935…

Taree High School’s first Agricultural Farm

PlacesBy Janine RobertsApril 6, 2023

Centred in a large farming region, Taree High School established agricultural studies as part of its curriculum in 1941. Initially the subject was for male students…

Survey Reference Trees

ArtefactsBy Janine RobertsApril 6, 2023

These old survey trees were an early way of marking the landscape to define roads, Crown Lands and property allotments…

Then and Now: MRCDS

StoriesBy Janine RobertsApril 4, 2023

Then and Now: Manning River Co-operative Dairy Society, Chatham

StoriesBy Janine RobertsApril 2, 2023

Mildred Muscio: Women’s Rights Activist

PeopleBy Janine RobertsMarch 8, 2023

Florence Mildred Fry was born at Copeland near Gloucester in 1882. Her parents were Jane McLennan, assistant teacher and Charles Fry who conducted the post office…

John Guilding’s Bitter-Sweet Dream

People, PlacesBy Janine RobertsFebruary 17, 2023

Through the abhorrent use of an enslaved workforce, plantation owners in the West Indies had made huge fortunes from the cultivation of that most sought-after commodity – sugar…

Then and Now: Manning River

StoriesBy Janine RobertsDecember 31, 2022

A very old and very good ginger beer recipe

ArtefactsBy Janine RobertsDecember 19, 2022

In our family homemade ginger beer and Christmas go hand in hand. Recently I came across an old ginger beer recipe at the NSW State Library…

Stephen Hopkins: Ex A.I.F.

PeopleBy Janine RobertsNovember 8, 2022

In society there are always people who fall through the cracks – one such was Stephen Hopkins…

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