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George Cooper talks and recites [sound recording]/ [Interviewer: John Meredith]
Bib ID 1448830
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Cooper, George, 1907-, Interviewee
 
Access Conditions Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use. 
Description 1986 
3 tape reels (ca. 57 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 7 in. 
Series

John Meredith folklore collection

Summary

Cooper talks about his memories of World War II; family background; flour mill; blacksmithing; self-sufficiency of farmers; the Depression; rabbit plague; 1949 flood; cattle duffing; Aboriginals in area; bullock teams; making bullock yokes; cutting railway sleepers; recitation of his own poems: The Last Roundup; The Drought; We Are Australian Now; Land of the Kangaroo, plus story; Down at Paulie's Pub, plus story; music for dances; picnic races; navvies on the railway line; 1902 drought; Yellow Billy, the bushranger; wreck of the Dunbar.

Folkloric recording.

Notes

Conversation and recitation.

Lending copy: 3 cassettes.

Preservation, working duplicate and cassette copies made.

Recorded outdoors in wind and beneath power transmission lines.

Reels 179 to 196 were recorded from 25 to 30 May 1986 as part of a project to record the oral history of the Wollombi Valley farming community.

Recorded at Wollombi, New South Wales on 25 May 1986.

Subjects Wollombi Region (N.S.W.) - Anecdotes.  |  Wollombi Region (N.S.W.) - History.  |  Wollombi Region (N.S.W.) - Rural conditions.
Other authors/contributors Meredith, John, 1920-2001, Interviewer

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