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Four things about me. I like reading, writing, researching and living in the country. In particular I like living at Kandos, where we have been for more than a decade. I have deep roots in this part of the country. My mother spent her early life in Kandos. My father was born at Rylstone. My grandparents were pioneers of Kandos and Rylstone. And I was born at Lue - and went to school in Mudgee. The history of this area excites me and I would like to share it with you. My monthly blogs are posted on the 1st of each month. However I intend taking a six-month furlough from blogging to continue a project that has been sitting on the shelves for too long. Also, after 71 posts and 59 articles I feel a bit stale. I post my first blog in May 2017. There is plenty to read on this site. If you are looking for a particular person or subject use the Search function. My last post is scheduled for 1/3/2022. If you pressed "Follow" and gave your email address, the blogs will be sent to you when I return. Thank you readers for your interest, comments and support. Colleen
Social Life

Devotion to Motherhood

May 9, 2020July 5, 2021 Kandos History

Some cultural celebrations have an obscure origin. Not Mother’s Day. Its founding is indisputable.

Tagged Social Life4 Comments
Aboriginal History, Family History, Local History, Rylstone, Social Life

Dabee Country

April 17, 2020July 5, 2021 Kandos History

They were absentee landowners, colonial gentry, fraternising with their peers, making deals, raising capital and writing letters to public officials and newspapers. They paid an overseer to manage their holding.

Tagged Aboriginal History, Family History, Farming, Local History, pioneers, Rylstone16 Comments
Aboriginal History, Family History, Local History

Aboriginal Connections and the Australian Dream

March 20, 2020July 6, 2021 Kandos History

I ask myself: why did my Aunt Meg, an openhearted, gregarious woman, who set me on the path of family history, and recorded so much of it, not tell me about my Aboriginal connections?

Tagged Aboriginal History, Family History, Local History25 Comments
Family History, Social Life

A Coded Letter

February 21, 2020July 6, 2021 Kandos History

One of the things I love about old letters is the language that plants them in the past. Things like "the blinking b battery", "thingamajig", "going goodo", "oh gee", "a fair cow", "cheerio", "the old mob".

Tagged Family History, Social Life19 Comments
Family History, Sport

Beatrice Hayley Kandos Sporting Hero

January 24, 2020July 6, 2021 Kandos History

On 7th February 1962 Beatrice shared the front cover of the Australian Women's Weekly Teenagers' Weekly with two other sporting heroes from the bush, tennis player Margaret Court from Albury and squash player Heather Blundell from Queanbeyan.

Tagged Farming, pioneers6 Comments
Rural life, Social Life

What’s a Wool Press?

December 27, 2019July 6, 2021 Kandos History

Is it any surprise then that many Australians in the nineteenth century, especially those newly arrived, saw opportunity in sheep farming? Little labour (most of the year) and big returns.

Tagged Farming, pioneers8 Comments
Cement History, Charbon, Local History, Social Life

Charbon Township – Vision and Reality

December 3, 2019April 30, 2022 Kandos History

Overwhelmingly I felt a sense of sadness for a once-thriving village.

Tagged Education, landscape, Local History, Social Life19 Comments
Local History, Social Life

No Water, No Life

November 1, 2019July 6, 2021 Kandos History

The "Wishing Well" piques childhood enchantment but perhaps I was always too focused on the present or future to stroll down a leaf-littered path into the past.

Tagged Local History, Rylstone, Social Life2 Comments
Aboriginal History, Family History, Rural life

Land, Lots of Land

October 6, 2019July 6, 2021 Kandos History

It was a familiar scene: a rough dirt road, dry creek bed, scrubby bushland. I saw no evidence of cultivation or construction, just shadows, silence, rustlings. But overwhelmingly I felt a sense of connection. I belonged there. I had sprung from this spot.

Tagged Family History, landscape, pioneers8 Comments
Family History

A Founding Mother

September 6, 2019July 6, 2021 Kandos History

This is the story of a gutsy, red-headed, seventeen-year-old, Sarah Bellamy

Tagged Family History, pioneers, Rylstone, Social Life8 Comments
Architecture, Businesses, War

A Notable Building in a Rare 20th Century Town – Kandos

August 9, 2019July 6, 2021 Kandos History

What could be more mood-altering than a dance hall that suggested a glittering French palace.

Tagged Architecture, Local History, Social Life11 Comments

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