Ted Winter interviewed by John Meredith with Chris Woodland in the John Meredith folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1373750
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Winter, Ted, 1909-2009, interviewee
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- Access to be determined.
- Description:
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- 1994 Apr. 11
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 91 min.)
- Series:
- John Meredith folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Winter recounts his birth in Cambooligo in 1909; how the goldmine closure of 1919 due to lack of water affected the town; life on a sheep station where his father worked living in the shearers' quarters; the problem of a weed called wild tobacco which threatened cattle; going rabbiting and how rabbits were poisoned; how they used quince jam to mix with strychine to kill the rabbits; going to the Sydney Teachers College in 1929 and started teaching science in 1931 for 18 years for the Dept. of Education until his move to Univ. of Melbourne; moving to Port Kembla in 1920 where he eventually got a job as a science teacher; how during the Depression work was only available one week in ten so he undertook casual teaching in Sydney and in 1934 to Parkes for a few years; how he has always been athletic and had won local pole vaulting State championships many times through the 1930s; representing Australia at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney.
Winter talks about how he ended up teaching physical education first at University of Melbourne from 1948, then moving back to Sydney in 1957; teaching at Manly Boys' High School from 1958 until he retired from teaching in 1968; his general good health; his involvement in the production of the book "The High country" by Donald MacDonald by supplying old photos such as snow shoe skis; snow on the escarpment over Port Kembla in 1921; seeing snow in New Zealand in 1935; joining a group to stay at Mt. Kosiusko Hotel; becoming a cross-country skier and regular visitor to the snow country by 1938 until the start of the Second World War in 1939; his first summer visit to the snow; the formation of the Kosiusko State Park; his job as an Army Captain teaching cadets until he resigned in 1957, from 1958 he taught at Manly Boys High; his interest in poetry, Australian balladry; building a ski lodge in 1964. Winter recites some of his poems.
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- 1. Conversation
- Recitations: 2. The alphabet - 3. The T-bar - 4. Dicky Cooper - 5. Boiling the billy - 6. Scat, scat and more scat! - 7. The generation gap - 8. Black cockatoos - 9. The wombat.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 11 April, 1994 at Faulconbridge, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
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