Resarching the Story of Uncle Fred Murray

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Meeting an Anthropologist

Originally posted on Gumboootspearlz:
One of my Aunties – in her face I see my mother so clearly!  Rotorua, in Aoteroa/ New Zealand, has one of those aromas that you can never forget and which is hard to escape. For me the strong smell of the sulphur is overtaken by an experience that has represented…

Art singing and dancing in the Streets

Art in the city, not shut away in galleries, but everywhere you look. It’s on power boxes, telegraph poles, railway station walls. climbs onto walls and alleyways. chalked, painted, sprayed, and poster papered. It’s murals with messages from Martin Luther King everytime I used to catch the bus in Marrickville I’d see his face withContinue reading “Art singing and dancing in the Streets”

Yarning with Nana

Originally posted on Following the Crow Song:
This is another guest blog from my youngest son about his grandparents.  Maybe we can persuade them to guest blog one day. I asked Nana some questions and this is what she told me. 1) What countries are your relatives from? Pieter your Great Great grandfather was from…