PAST ISSUES

ARTICLES

Issue 1:

• The Songs the Diggers Really Sang - Warren Fahey
• Spanning the Past into Tomorrow: Lennox Bridge
• Defining the Historical Landscape:Blue Mountains Memorials to Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth
• Ebb Wren
• When I was Young and Had No Sense: Children's rhymes, songs and games from Tasmania
• "I'm Glad I Had My Salad Roll"
• A SENSE OF PLACE : Gladys Carey Reserve
• Fair Game for Anyone: Rough justice on the Turon goldfield of NSW
• Western Australian Folklore Archive

Issue 2:

• Warren Fahey asks:Where are the songs from our maritime history?
• Whitefella Dreaming:Lasseter's Reef and the Lore of Lost Treasures
• There's a Fire! a first hand account of the 1951 bushfires in the Blue Mountains of NSW
• A Ride from Bathurst to Sydney 1860: Notes on a Rare broadside
• SONGS AND STORIES OF AUSTRALIA : What is a yarn?
• Why we "Shared the Harvest"
• AN INTERVIEW with Gary Shearston
• A SENSE OF PLACE: Pennyweight Flat, a goldfields cemetery in Central Victoria
• Tales From the Track: The De Bortolis Family and Jeane Upjohn
• THE COLLECTION BOX: two unpublished gems from Warren Fahey's collection

Issue 3:

• The Waterwitch : Some thoughts on a Tasmanian Whaling Song and Its Origins
• St Patrick's Day in Australia - Part 1
• SONGS AND STORIES OF AUSTRALIA : A Swag of Yarns from Ted Egan, Jim Haynes, Bob Miller and others
• Anzac Cottage: Australia's first Great War memoria
• Tassie Tunes Unmasked
• Warren Fahey looks for Australia Day Goal Posts
• Polly Flood: a remarkable Aboriginal woman's contribution to the life of a country town
• Ned Kelly - a collector's heaven: a light hearted look at the world of kitch in Glenrowan
• Extracting Eucalyptus Oil
• Strangers on the Shore: shipwrecks on the west coast and tales of survival
• A SENSE OF PLACE: Luna Park - Just for fun
• Tales From the Track:Lola Wright and the South Coast Bush Band
• The Dream of Bill Case
• Crawford's Run: the tale of Hiram Crawford and his coach line along the Murray in Victoria

Issue 4:

• Who was the mysterious Mr Eternity?
• St Patrick's Day in Australia - part 2
• Bits and Pieces from Warren Fahey's Collecting Swag
• Neta Davis: Deua River Woman
• The Haunted West: Supernatural Traditions In Western Australia
• Songs and Stories of Australia: a look at on-going popular yarns and some of the books that have been published on the subject
• A SENSE OF PLACE: Boyd's Tower - Benjamin Boyd's Folly and the sad story of Peter Lia and whaling
• The Spent Dollar: the life of the dollar in Australia
• Tales From the Track: Lola Wright and Jim Simpson, the Nariel Knitter
• Magpie Games
• THE COLLECTION BOX: Do you know this song about Cobb and Co?

Issue 5:

• The Further I Travel: A different slant on the story of Robert O'Hara Burke and his fateful expedition
• The Rouseabouts, the rattling good bush band: an in-depth interview with Ray Grieve
• Tina Lawton
• Bits and Pieces from Warren Fahey's Collecting Swag
• A Kangaroo-skin Pouch of Letters: the poignant tale of a family separated and distanced by transportation
• Hod Cay
• Songs and Stories of Australia: the work of Alexander Vennard, otherwise known as Bill Bowyang
• Colleen Cassidy
• Screensound Australia: Dick Parry and others
• Tales From the Track: Reg and Suzanne Hodge and an amazing tale of ballrooms and rabbit traps
• The Boxing Day Bushfires: a photographic documentary of a Blue Mountains property

Issue 6:

• The Fields of Eldorado: The tragic story of the 1895 McEvoy Mining disaster in Victoria
• Written in the Trenches: Digger newspapers of the first world war
• Ruby's Story: the story of Lewis. H. Lasseter as told by his daughter Lillian Agnes (Ruby) Hodgetts
• A SENSE OF PLACE:The Passing of the Rail
• Songs and Stories of Australia: convicts and bolters
• Kokoda: Track or Trail
• Tales From the Track: The Baulch Brothers of Kerang
• Fisher's Ghost: the true story of Fisher's Ghost as told by Andrew Lang
• Screensound Australia: the National Screen and Sound Archive
• THE COLLECTION BOX: Questions about Dargin's Grey

Issue 7:

• BACK TO CHILDHOOD: songs, photos and memories of a childhood growing up in North Sydney before an expressway divided a community
• Who Is Sally Sloane?
• The "Folk" Process: two songs of Harry Peckman, the Blue Mountains Poet
• Songs and Stories of Australia: ghosts and other superstitions - part 1
• A SENSE OF PLACE:More Than a Name - "history, as we commonly conceive of it, is not what happened, but what gets recorded and told"
• Irish Australian Flag: raised for the first time at the Vinegar Hill Woolshed on 10th March, 1988
• Aussie Storyteller Bridges Cultures: Paul Taylor's 20-year walkabout has taken him across oceans and continents, building bridges of cultural understanding each step of the way
• THE COLLECTION BOX: In the Clink

Issue 8:

• The New Transport Vehicle: some observations regarding the aeroplane of 1930 and a trip by air from Sydney to Brisbane
• What a Story! memories of a great Australian, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
• A SENSE OF PLACE:The Value of the Journey - we are losing what once could be considered an inherent value in land travel
• Songs and Stories of Australia: the amazing and often inexplicable coincidences that happen to people
• THE BUSH: Max O'Rell's interesting description in 1894 of the Australian Bush, its solitude and the people he saw there
• THE COLLECTION BOX: The Singing Mailman

Issue 9:

• AUSTRALIAN LINKS TO THE TITANIC DISASTER . . . The Titanic disaster had a profound affect on Australia, being as maritime dependent then as it is aviation today to bridge the vast distances separating it from the outside world
• WHEN I MADE HISTORY ....
  "I like art and stuff," said the child. "I've got an uncle who's an artist." "Indeed?" said the artist. "What's his name?" "Uncle Tootsie," said the boy.
• INHERITORS OF A DREAM:
  Phil Garland looks at the development of a New Zealand Folk Music Heritage
• WHO OWNS FOLKLORE?
  A Discussion Paper, by Graham Seal, which raises a number of issues with the aim of stimulating discussion among those with an interest in folklore.
• HORIZONS AND HEARTLANDS
  South Australian singer/songwriter and farmer Jeanette Wormald speaks about her latest project and the Mallee landscape that is her inspiration
• SONGS AND STORIES OF AUSTRALIA . . .
  Part two of David Mulhallen's looks at the ghosts and superstitions in Australian literature
• TALES FROM THE TRACK
  . . . Life stories from the Oral History and Folklore collection of The National Library of Australia. This issue read about Bev's Washboard Band in B#
• THE SYDNEY DUCKS . . .
  "The exact number of Australians who went to California is unknown, but by 1849 so many were congregating on the Barbary Coast it was commonly called 'Sydney Town', the ruffian larrikins as they were called forming gangs known as the 'Sydney Ducks' and 'Sydney Coves'
• AN INTERVIEW WITH PHIL GARLAND
  Phil Garland is one of New Zealand's true musical treasures, a respected folklorist and a musical balladeer whose mission for over 30 years has been to gather and preserve for posterity, the songs and stories of New Zealand
• LOOKING BACK. . .
  With the re-opening of Luna Park in April, we look back on an article from our archives

Issue 10:

• ELIZA EMILY DONNITHORNE: Sydney's Miss Havisham ....Was her tragic tale the inspiration for Dickens' Miss Haversham in Great Expectations?
• THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF FREDERICK BAILEY DEEMING . . . On the 23 May 1892 multiple murderer Frederick Bailey Deeming was executed at Melbourne gaol. At the time many were convinced he was Jack the Ripper.... but was he?
• ECHOES OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR IN AUSTRALIA . . . Here are the stories of just a few American Civil War veterans who lived and died in Australia
• A SENSE OF PLACE: A Walk to the Bluff ... This is a very special place at the end of a fire track. The article includes a gallery of images
• PROFILE: Warren Fahey ... Here is a fascinating look at one of Simply Australia's favourite contributors.
• OWNERSHIP, CREDIBILITY AND CONTROL OF FOLKLORE OF PLACE ... Dr Cathie Clement's response to the discussion paper, Who Owns Folklore? by Graham Seal, which raised a number of issues with the aim of stimulating discussion among those with an interest in folklore.

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