Dick Rummery interviewed by Chris Sullivan for the Chris Sullivan folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 681641
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Rummery, Dick, 1901-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1986 Dec. 12
- 5 sound tape reels (ca. 159 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Chris Sullivan folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording of Dick Rummery, father of Tom and Bob Rummrey, grandfather of Mark Rummery. Born in Casino, NSW, Rummery speaks of his childhood; fathers employment in forestry, timber getting, bullock teams, lifestyle in Casino district; school memories and education; family history and background; local environment when young, passionfruit vines, dingoes; grandfather's dairy farm in Carumbin district; forestry trips with father, sugar cane processing; family moving; relatives in northern NSW; river rafts made from logs, timber mill at Rappville; local area and transportation; timber work and attitudes to forests when he was young, types of trees; music when young; memories of life in 1919, Armistice day celebrations, local songs and music, fishing, Aboriginals, shearers and bushmen and their music, war stories; Catholic background ; boxers, hawkers, Indians in casino; pine plantations; working in courts; life in boarding school during World War I; his family.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 12 December 1986, at Merewether, Newcastle, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Sullivan, Chris (Christopher Daniel), 1953-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Chris Sullivan folklore collection.
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- Until 2056 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1986
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