Peg Nelson interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3425932
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Nelson, Peg, 1913-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2005
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 55 min.)
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Summary:
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Peg Nelson speaks about her family background; her childhood at Love's Creek Station; her siblings; schooling by correspondence; fortnightly mail; horses; playing outdoors; Aboriginal children; bush tucker; Alice Springs; Royal Flying Doctor Service; electricity; swimming; flies, fly veils; killing animals for meat; seasons; mother milking cows; making home-made butter, buttermilk; stockmen; kerosene fridges; meeting her future husband Jock Nelson; reflects on changes in Alice Springs; her father being a good horseman, his trophies, breeding horses; Indian horse market; Aboriginal stockmen; station work today, the use of motorbikes and helicopters; further on Love's Creek Station, cattle, droving, mustering, branding; windmills; droughts; neighbours; motorcars, learning to drive; her wedding; life at Tennant Creek; gold; carting water; cooking; the war, her children; her husband's government work; his political career, as Mayor of Alice Springs, Administrator of the Territory.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on April 08, 2005 at Alice Springs, N.T.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-221283597
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 50 leaves) available.
- Subject:
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This belongs to the Drovers oral history project.
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2005
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