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In the Future – a verse

04/11/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

by Frederick McCubbin

In The Future    –    by Prospect Good Oh what will the bush bards sing in time When the digging days are done? When the roaring times have been sung in rhymes The yarns of the past all spun? When there’s no new field to rush and work And never a camp fire gleams […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Western Australia

No Good at Sewing –

04/11/2017 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The old timer was sitting among the pots and pans in orderly array outside his little camp, he was skewering a startling blue patch to a pair of trousers. ‘Can I do it for you?” asked the young lady visitor with a smile. He regarded her solemnly over his spectacles, then, ‘Thank ye kindly,” he […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Lina FURIA – people profile

02/11/2017 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Lina Furia, 1933, courtesy of Tess Epis.

Lina Furia (1891 – 1970) Born   4 November 1891  –  Grosotto, Tirano, Valtellina Died  1970  Coolgardie, Western Australia  –   buried Boulder Cemetery. Occupation  –   Hotel owner Alternative Names    –   Osmetti, Lina    –  Robustellini, Lina Summary Lina Furia owned and ran the Cornwall Hotel in Boulder with her husband Charlie Furia and her son […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

The Picnic – tragedy in the great drought

02/11/2017 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

The painting here is by Luke Sciberras called, Poison Picnic. It was painted especially for this piece.

The day dawned still and sure, as the first day might have dawned. No wind whispered across the white dust. This was a day like any other. But she knew it was not! By Frannie HOPKIRK The woman had slept fitfully through the hot night. Her slumber the shallow sad unrest of one tormented by life, […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Family History, Western Australia

Time Lapse – then and now

30/10/2017 By Moya Sharp 7 Comments

Kalgoorlie Cemetery Gates 2017 - photo Danelle Warnock

Kalgoorlie Cemetery gates, first photo taken today and the second c 1950, which do you prefer???  

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

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