This solid structure still proudly stands Building costs covered by volunteer hands Locally quarried, each sandstone block A place of worship for God’s own flock.Continue reading “The Church at Running Stream”
The Church at Running Stream
The Digger’s Luck
The area around Angledool is popular for opal prospecting. The humorous poem “The Diggers’s Luck” concerns a prospector who dreams one day of “striking it rich” and thereby becoming an opal king. The many shafts and depressions all over this area make ideal breeding places for mosquitoes – big mosquitoes.
Continue reading “The Digger’s Luck”The King (1907)
The song The King (1907) is an adaptation of the poem by the same name. Under the poem’s title is written in brackets – “written in 1907”. Jim Harper knew King Tommy, about whom the poem is written. The Aboriginal shared his memories with Harper about some of the floods in the district before the 1890 flood. He took him to places which the flood waters had covered. *
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