Thanks to everyone who put fingers to keyboards and sent us emails. Below is a selection of those that arrived in the inbox. If you have anything to say... even if it is just hello... please send it through to us at letters@mountaintracks.com.au
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Congratulations on another amazing effort. I'm gob-smacked
Geoff
Tasmania
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Dear Editor,
My mother & myself have been delving into family history & early Australian history for nearly 30 years & find the whole subject most fascinating.
I have just become an email user & spend long nights delving into ANY history & came across your publication (most interesting) when making enquiries into Harold Lasseter.
As I also write poetry (on odd occasions) I may be able to submit some to you at a later date.
Keep up the good work. I cannot understand ANYONE saying life is DULL & BORING!!!
.....LYN
Western Australia
[We'd be very interested to receive your contributions Lyn. We are always happy to look at articles, poems and anecdotes from readers. It is amazing the amount of hidden talent and knowledge that is out there on the other side of the computer screen! - Ed]
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I've just viewed Simply Australia for the first time and am delighted with
it. I've already passed the URL on to several friends in our Family History
Association.
Congratulations.
Denyse
in Townsville, Qld
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Could I ask that you be just a bit more careful with your grammar as it is something that confronts any Website visitor? Case in point, "The Waterwitch - Some Thoughts on a Tasmanian Whaling Song and It's Origins". "It's" stands for "it is", not the possessive. The possessive is "its". Bad grammar in journalism, on page or Web, puts people off.
thanks,
Mary
Ireland
[Thank you for pointing out the error on the front page of Issue 3. It has been corrected. I do understand the difference between the two. This was an oversight rather than a lack of knowledge as you would have seen had you gone on to read the article where it is indeed used correctly. As I'm sure you'd appreciate, this is a huge task and one which we take very seriously. I'm sure we can be forgiven for the mistake (and the others which undoubtedly have occurred throughout the site) especially if you read our editorial and see the difficulty under which we worked to get Issue 3 online at all. I do hope that you found some of the articles of interest and have not been put off from reading on in the future. - Ed]
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Thank you Jim for your songs on Simply Australia. They brought me great pleasure and Luna Park also kindled memories of my happy visits there in the 60's.
I hope that more of your work will be put on site in the future.
God bless
Dell
Toowoomba
[Thank you for the kind words about my songs. Your words are much appreciated. I'm glad you like Luna Park. I've written quite a few songs about my childhood experiences in North Sydney and some of these will appear on the site in the coming months. North Sydney in the fifties was a residential area about to undergo a big change especially with the coming of the Expressway that cut the suburb in half. I saw a lot of changes as I used to walk from my house to school each day. The way I used to walk to school is now buried under the expressway. I think this dramatic change early in my lifetime has influenced my interest in history and the changes that have taken place in Australia. A lot of my writing has been about changes in the lives of ordinary people. - Jim Low]
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Dear John,
While it's absolutely unlikely you remember me, I talked to
you some years ago in the Springwood library when I was gathering
information relevant to my grandmother, Mrs Annie Elizabeth Webb, who was
proprietress of Katoomba's Eldon Guest House from about 1917 on until the
early 1960's.
Since then, I've become interested in virtually all early Australian
history, and have recently found Simply Australia and particularly want to say thank you for the notes you've written as for
the Ride From Bathurst broadside. Enjoyed them greatly, and even more than
being a great help making sense of the material itself, they greatly help
paint a picture of the life in those early days on the mountains that I
continue to struggle to visualise.
Best wishes,
Keri
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