This is the story of Rhonda Moag’s Great Aunt Maree. She had often been told the story by her Aunt Sonia about Aunt Maree who was a brilliant equestrian who led a grand parade atop a big white horse and then was tragically killed when she was thrown. It was never clear if she was […]
The people of the Goldfields
The Goldfields of Western Australia was and still is made up of many people, from poets to politicians, from saints and sinners and everything in between. I hope to tell you the stories of some of these people either famous or infamous or just the ordinary folks. Sometime the most ordinary people do the most extraordinry things
Jimmy Long – a link with Paddy Hannan
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If you were in want of a good story in the 1930’s, you only need to take a long walk up Cassidy Hill on the fringe of Kalgoorlie to see old Jimmy Long. He not only overflowed with reminiscences of colourful goldfields life, but he also was a link to Paddy Hannan. In fact he […]
The Swearful Dryblower – a verse
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I am a digger at Mulgabbie and I’d like to rise and say Dryblowing is a swearful game to most diggers anyway. You work for days without a color, then have a lengthy swear that takes two solid windy days to cleanse the atmosphere. If an angel down from heaven had to dryblow for a […]
Roses are Red and Violets are Blue –
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When I was young and long before that, it was a common practice for young girls and women to have autograph books where they would get their friends to write short sayings and verses and sign their names. I still have one that my mother had during WW2. Some took it one step further and […]
The Lady Bushranger – Jessie Hickman
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The Lady Bushranger: Remembering Australia’s Forgotten Female Outlaw Bushrangers have claimed their place in history as the Robin Hoods of Australia’s colonial past. Unless they were women, then they have no place in history at all. Meet Jessie Hickman, the country’s most formidable and forgotten female outlaw! She had five aliases and she ran a […]
