Posts

Lowell Tarling

Image
Contents Bio Bibliography Videos Tarling Tapes References ------------------ 1. Bios The following mini-autobiography was posted on Lowell Tarling's Amazon sales site under the About the Author heading: The kids nicknamed me 'French Boy' in England, because French was my first language. When I was seven years old, still living in England, I recall telling an old aunt that some day I wanted to be an author. I remember the incident very clearly, in the hall at 24 Oakwood Avenue.It could only have been my father who instilled in me a love of literature. In some ways, it backfired on him when I was broke - but it paid off in the long run. In those early years I didn't know anybody else who was interested in literature. Mum was certainly keen to read to me in French. She read novels by an efficient novelist, M Delly. However, my father spoke of Moliére, whom he claimed was as good as Shakespeare. During the mid-to-late 60s, there was a cultural spl...
Post a Comment
Read more

Matilda or Lady Nelson @ Jervis Bay 1791?

Image
Shoalhaven: | Aunty Julie Freeman | Berry's Frankenstein & Arawarra | Cullunghutti - Sacred Mountain | Death ... Arawarra, Berry & Shelley | First Nations research | Gooloo Creek, Conjola | Jervis Bay 1791 | Mickey of Ulladulla | Mount Gigenbullen | Byamee's Hands, Shoalhaven River | Ulladulla Mission | Words | Yams | Mathew Whitehead's Matilda off Currambene Creek [Jervis Bay] [July] 1791 . 1. Introduction Early in February 2025 the writer was sent an image (illustrated above) of a modern painting titled Mathew Whitehead's Matilda off Currambene Creek 1791 . The sender [AC] queried whether the image was of the vessel Lady Nelson or the Matilda . This was a reasonable question, as the Lady Nelson is well known in the annals of early colonial period Australian history, as against the Matilda , of which no illustration is extant and its movement less well known. The following article attempts to answer...
Post a Comment
Read more

Kangaroo Valley - aspects of Australian Indigenous cultural heritage

Image
Shoalhaven: | Aunty Julie Freeman | Berry's Frankenstein & Arawarra | Cullunghutti - Sacred Mountain | Death ... Arawarra, Berry & Shelley | First Nations research | Gooloo Creek, Conjola | Kangaroo Valley | Mickey of Ulladulla | Mount Gigenbullen | Byamee's Hands, Shoalhaven River | Ulladulla Mission | Words | Yams | | Aborigines / Indigenous / First Nations archive | Contents Introduction Chronology & bibliography Dreaming stories pre European settlement post-Invasion Acknowledgements ---------------- 1. Introduction The following compilation of material was brought about through the writer's awareness of the work of Reconciliation Allies Kangaroo Valley (RAKV), a community group formed in 2021 comprising mostly Kangaroo Valley residents. It, along with the nearby Shoalhaven Walking Together Alliance , comprise a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Aus...
Post a Comment
Read more