Had a really enjoyable workshop at Ashgrove Library with the Young Explorers of Ashgrove History.
Uncle Nurdon Serico shared his knowledge of the local country and of the Turrbal people.
He reminded us of the Turrbal name for Ashgrove - Kallindarbin and of the fact that Waterworks Road was once an Aboriginal pathway leading to Mt Cootha and to the Bunya festival in the Bunya Mountains.
I remembered the Kuril Story that Vanessa Fisher told and painted for the Crossing Boundaries project in 1997- 98. Here's the link. It's been archived on the Pandora site these days but it's still all there.
It was a great project. It would be good to do it again sometime, get some different stories and compare results.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Ashgrove local history stories and yarns
I had great pleasure telling my 'Clothes Props Man' story to children and adults at the Launch of the Creating Young Local Historians project at Ashgrove Library on Saturday.
Local History is all about stories really. Sure some people get bogged down in detail of dates, addresses and exactly what was said at times but really they are just getting bogged down in Narrative Structure or at least one part of it.
The other delightful story we had at the launch was the story of The Children's Coach. For some years around 1937 at St Finbarr's School in Ashgrove the kindergarten children were delivered by a horse and cart owned by the nuns. Miss Pat Fahey was there at our launch to share the story about being one of the children photographed sitting in the buggy. She's the one sucking her thumb.
She reckons that it was probably because, although the horse plodded up the hill in Jubilee Tce where she was picked up, it used gallop along at a great rate along Waterworks Road and they all had to hang on.
If you would like to see what Pat looks like now have a look on our YEAH blog.
Really looking foward to our first children's workshop in the library on Saturday at the Ashgrove Library. Uncle Nurdon Serico is going to come along to tell us a story or two about Turrbal enjoyment of the area.
We'll have some games, technology, more stories and fun, so if you know of any children living in the greater Ashgrove area who would like something really different to do on Saturday here's the link to the information.
http://youngexplorersashgrovehistory.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/launch-of-creating-young-local.html
We'll be publishing stories, local history information, podcasts etc on the YEAH blog so you might like to follow our progress.
Daryll
Local History is all about stories really. Sure some people get bogged down in detail of dates, addresses and exactly what was said at times but really they are just getting bogged down in Narrative Structure or at least one part of it.
The other delightful story we had at the launch was the story of The Children's Coach. For some years around 1937 at St Finbarr's School in Ashgrove the kindergarten children were delivered by a horse and cart owned by the nuns. Miss Pat Fahey was there at our launch to share the story about being one of the children photographed sitting in the buggy. She's the one sucking her thumb.
She reckons that it was probably because, although the horse plodded up the hill in Jubilee Tce where she was picked up, it used gallop along at a great rate along Waterworks Road and they all had to hang on.
If you would like to see what Pat looks like now have a look on our YEAH blog.
Really looking foward to our first children's workshop in the library on Saturday at the Ashgrove Library. Uncle Nurdon Serico is going to come along to tell us a story or two about Turrbal enjoyment of the area.
We'll have some games, technology, more stories and fun, so if you know of any children living in the greater Ashgrove area who would like something really different to do on Saturday here's the link to the information.
http://youngexplorersashgrovehistory.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/launch-of-creating-young-local.html
We'll be publishing stories, local history information, podcasts etc on the YEAH blog so you might like to follow our progress.
Daryll
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