On this day 164 years ago, the SS Admella was wrecked on Carpenters Reef
With a total complement of 113 on board, including 84 passengers and 29 crew, this would be the beginning of a week-long horrific ordeal, in mid-winter, at the mercy of…
August is poetry month … why not dip into the works of Adam Lindsay Gordon?
This is a great opportunity to become acquainted, or re-acquainted, with Australia’s national poet – Adam Lindsay Gordon – who, according to fellow poet Henry Kendall, ‘… sang the first…
Bungala House: Historic country home in Yankalilla
New book - Bungala House: Historic country home in Yankalilla - available soon. With more than 160 years of history, Bungala House began in the 1860s with the Butterworth brothers,…
World Poetry Day – 21 March
Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbour, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things…