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Carolyn Lyons interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording]
Bib ID 1260507
Format AudioAudio
Author
Lyons, Carolyn, 1944-
 
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 1995. 
1 sound cassette (ca. 57 min.) : analog, mono. 
Series

Women of the land oral history project

Summary

Lyons speaks of her childhood, her family, her mother, her life on the farm, her husband, her real love and interest in cattle, her trip to France to get some Salers, her involvement in the market and the international market where she is on the verge of developing a new kind of Coonamble beef, her familial problems related to the health of her children, problems associated with drought and the support from people living in the cities; the Ross River fever, its effect on farmers and the possibility to be prevented, her role as a carer for people living on the land.

Notes

Part of a collection of 33 interviews with rural women for the book "Women of the land".

Project conducted in association with the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Has accompanying photograph.

Recorded at Gulargambone, New South Wales, on Thursday 23 March 1995.

DCM record; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;

Index/Finding Aid Note Transcript available (typescript, 27 leaves.) 
Subjects Lyons, Carolyn, - 1944- - Interviews.  |  Rural women - Australia - Interviews.  |  Rural women - Australia - Social conditions.  |  Women in agriculture - Australia.  |  Salers cattle - Breeding - New South Wales.  |  Cattle breeders - New South Wales.  |  Ross River fever.  |  Gulargambone (N.S.W.) - Biography.
Other authors/contributors Bowden, Ros  |  Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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