Alice continues the story of her husband Stan and the 18 other Polish migrants to Australia in 1949. All were in search of a home following the trauma of the Second World War.
Lisa loves writing poetry and this is but one example....a story of a 6 year old
On the road… again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek These Stones Will Never Wilt Whenever we return to the Netcong, New Jersey area to visit, my wife Thu and I make a visit to Stanhope Union Cemetery as part of the agenda. That is where my...
On the road… again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Sources Of The Nile River Every 4th-grade school child has heard about the Nile River. Most young ones know that it is in Africa; older students learn that it is the longest river in the world, at...
Bill was at Rostrevor College last week talking to a group of students who were about the go to New Guinea to walk the Kakoda Track. Bill decided to tell them about the rain that falls up there and recounted a story from World War Two when he was fighting the...
Ruth talks about her friends when she was younger..
Cynthia recalls the days when there were garbage collectors who accompanied the garbage trucks. These 'garbos' as they were known collected the garbage bins and loaded them on to the truck for emptying - and then they rweturned them to where (approximately) they had collected the bin from. Cynthia spent a...
After two years of unpaid hard work Pat got her first paid job as an assistant in the X-Ray Dept of a hospital.
Lisa recalls her first job at a men's outfitters in Elizabeth, South Australia in 1961 x
Shirley tells us about her first job when she was 16 at the Myer Emporium...
Joyce recalls her first job in Adelaide, South Australia..
In this story Margaret recalls her first job which was becoming a Wren as it was wartime.
Joyce talks about her first job in Adelaide after having moved down from Peterborough.
Jill 's great grandfather HH Tilbrook wrote notebooks of his journeys throughout South Australia. Here she reads the introduction to his journey via rail to the South East of the State.
Bill tells us about attending a rodeo at Jubilee Oval in Adelaide. Sir Sydney Kidman organised the rodeo for the people of South Australia to celebrate his birthday.
On the road… again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Knee-High By The 4th Of July Growing up in the snow belt of Northern New Jersey, the Footloose Forester was aware of the fact that our little town was about 10 degrees colder than in metropolitan New York...
Seventy-nine is just fine for this lady born in 1934, in New Mexico. Leola Butler has lived in Salem since1968 when she and her husband, Glen, bought the home in which she still lives. While in high school she worked at an Indian Trading Post in Ship Rock, New Mexico....
