Dear Aussie Friends
Door: Rudolph and Marion
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03 September 2011 | Australië, Bathurst
We have been visiting the Archives in Canberra to try and find my family's immigration history. It has been a great success thanks to the lovely people helping us. We even found a photo album from Woodside immigration camp bringing my memories to life.
Canberra is a lovely city and to me having studied American Metropolitan history it was a special place too. I bought a beautiful book about Burley Griffin and his idea of building the ideal city.
The Anzac Memorial is a very moving place to visit.
But now we are off to Orange to visit the site of Banjo Patterson. Joop, our Aussie friend in Sydney is going to overhear me reciting the poem of Clancy of the Overflow, so we'd better get moving. Stay tuned.
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03 September 2011 - 02:25
Joop Mul:
True! Actually, I realise that Paterson's poetry can be criticised as almost being like the "spin" that politicians are accused of, but yes, when I first started teaching primary school, in Riverstone, in 1964, OF COURSE you had to have your class know these poems 'by heart'..............
"I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,
He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,
Just `on spec', addressed as follows, `Clancy, of The Overflow'.
And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected,
(And I think the same was written with a thumb-nail dipped in tar)
'Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it:
`Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are.'
In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy
Gone a-droving `down the Cooper' where the Western drovers go;
As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing,
For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know."
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