MORE STORIES OF CAMPBELL TOWN Read about:
- Ninety the Glutton’s ungovernable appetite
- What the 4th child of the 2nd headmaster did with a one-eyed American Indian
- Life from the sheep’s point of view, in the land that produces the best wool in the world
- WH Tofft, a progressive, late 19th century doctor who fought tuberculosis while tending his flock
- The Hungry Forties that led to acts of desperation revealed in Campbell Town’s convict brick trail
- It seems like only yesterday
- Flavours of yesteryear
- Old family photos released for the first time
- What the 4th child of the 2nd headmaster did with a one-eyed American Indian
- The depths of human degradation that led to desperation, starvation and Transportation
- The heights to which one man soared fighting the most successful disease of all time, right here in our town
- Food from Show & shed
- My Turn ... a sheep speaks
- More old photos
- Boy’s-eye view of a shearers’ cookhouse
- What they earned
TRUE TALES OF THE ROARING 40s Travel back to the 19th century for Tasmanian tales of:
A Tale of Heads Our journey begins at the Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston, Tasmania, in a dusty storeroom far removed from the museum’s timeless beauty. In the storeroom, staff work in white gloves over thousands of pieces of plaster of paris from a collection bequeathed by John Watt Beattie (1848-1920), Tasmania’s premier landscape photographer. When their work is done, staff will have assembled the shards into plaster heads which are death masks of the famous and infamous.
The Lost Years of Meagher of the Sword Banish a dynamic Irishman to one of the world’s remotest backwaters and expect him to lead a low-key rural life, and what happens? How does he escape to lead the Irish Brigade in the U.S. Civil War and become Acting Governor of Montana?
- A big-game hunter and explorer who travelled from the heart of Tasmania to the heart of Africa
- Death masks of poisoners & preachers, criminals and politicians, and phrenology in Tasmania
- A transported Irish political prisoner fired by injustice who escaped from Tasmania in the night and became a respected US politician and Civil War leader
A Tale of Heads Our journey begins at the Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston, Tasmania, in a dusty storeroom far removed from the museum’s timeless beauty. In the storeroom, staff work in white gloves over thousands of pieces of plaster of paris from a collection bequeathed by John Watt Beattie (1848-1920), Tasmania’s premier landscape photographer. When their work is done, staff will have assembled the shards into plaster heads which are death masks of the famous and infamous.
The Lost Years of Meagher of the Sword Banish a dynamic Irishman to one of the world’s remotest backwaters and expect him to lead a low-key rural life, and what happens? How does he escape to lead the Irish Brigade in the U.S. Civil War and become Acting Governor of Montana?