Peter Ellis interviewed by Keith McKenry [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5741464
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Ellis, Peter (Peter N.), 1946-2015, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2011
- 4 sound files (ca. 357 min.)
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Peter Ellis, born and educated in Bendigo; speaks of his adoptive parents and grandparents; their heritage and life in Australia; discoving he was adopted when still a child; meeting birth family in 1989 (43 yrs); ongoing relationship with them; their heritage and his ancestry; childhood games and activities, music lessons; school days in Bendigo, love of chemistry; becoming a lab assistant Bendigo Technical College and then technician Flora Hill High School (1981); interest in ballroom dancing; family politics; retirement at 55 yrs; volunteer work; going back to work; Susannah Larratt Award for contribution to Laboratory Technicians' Association of Victoria; John Meredith; talks about his Field Naturalist Club membership (1964); people, things that influenced him; growing interest in the environment; submission for the Whipstick National Park, it’s eventual gazettal as a park; discusses several battles to preserve bushland around Bendigo; deputation to Premier Hamer to protect Whipstick; success with Salomen Gully Flora Reserve.
Ellis discusses family life with his adoptive parents; his mother’s remarriage, his sister Robyn; deaths of adoptive father and stepfather; living at home with mother and sister; music, learning to play xylophone, tin whistle; buying house; talks about music and instruments in the lives of his biological family; first Nariel Folk Festival; amazement at the players, Neville Simpson, Keith Klippel, the young teenage box players; acquiring a C box accordion; interest in dancing; reminisces about old time dancing at school, learns ballroom; dances at Spring Gully; discovers the Wedderburn Oldtimers and Harry McQueen; going to National Folk Festival in Sydney (1982) with Wedderburn Old-timers; his books; meeting and association with Shirley Andrews, her political views; Tasmania with Shirley and Wedderburn Oldtimers; joining John Meredith on collecting trips; Merro at Nariel; Chris Sullivan, Rob Willis; trip to W.A. with Merro; Waltzing Matilda, Ma Seal; personal life, formation of Emu Creek Bush Band; interviewing for the NLA; sings a few songs.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 27 October 2011 in Harcourt North, Vic.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
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- Corrected transcript (typescript, 183 leaves)
- Timed summary (18 p.)
- Subject:
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- Ellis, Peter (Peter N.), 1946-2015 -- Interviews
- Meredith, John, 1920-2001 -- Anecdotes
- Conservationists -- Victoria -- Bendigo -- Interviews
- Folklorists -- Victoria -- Bendigo -- Interviews
- Folk dance musicians -- Victoria -- Bendigo -- Interviews
- Laboratory technicians -- Victoria -- Bendigo -- Interviews
- Other authors/contributors:
- McKenry, Keith, 1948-, interviewer
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2081 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2011
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