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Architecture, Businesses, Local History, Migrant History, Occupations, Rylstone, Social Life

Food and Fantasy in a Greek Café

May 1, 2021July 3, 2021 Kandos History

The Greeks in Australia learnt by osmosis that a café was a good way to earn a living and give them financial security – a café, that is, that served Australian cuisine, not Greek.

Tagged Cafes, Greek, Kandos, Rylstone4 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, Rylstone23 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
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
Family History, Rylstone, Social Life, War

1st Australian Horse – the Rylstone troop

February 22, 2019July 7, 2021 Kandos History

On that day young bloods, sons of pastoralists mainly, rode in to Rylstone on their horses, were inspected, learnt the conditions of the regiment and were sworn in at the courthouse.

Tagged Family History, Rylstone, Social Life, War4 Comments
Cement History, Family History, Social Life

Hunting Harleston

December 28, 2018July 7, 2021 Kandos History

The turn of the century was a time when young rural men in particular, hungry for their own bit of land, raked among the hills, dales and gullies to identify and secure a portion of crown land.

Tagged Family History, Farming, Local History, Rylstone, Social Life10 Comments
Family History, War

A Soldier’s Letters

November 16, 2018July 7, 2021 Kandos History

That terrible war was about ordinary young men wanting adventure, itching to test their heroic capacity on foreign battlefields, wanting to prove their love of country and empire.

Tagged Family History, Rylstone, War9 Comments
Family History, Social Life, War

Is There Something Wrong with Anzac Day?

May 4, 2018July 8, 2021 Kandos History

Even in those early years, Australians understood the significance of Anzac Day as more than a commemoration of those who had fought.

Tagged Family History, pioneers, Rylstone, Social Life, War2 Comments
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