Edna Walling's stunning garden designs
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by Hels
3d ago
Edna Margaret Walling (1895-1973) was born in York, second daughter of William and Harriet Walling. Edna studied at the Convent of Notre Dame in Devon, enjoying exploring with dad and the practical arts. Arriving in New Zealand in 1912 with her family, she began a nursing course at Christchurch. About 1914 the Wallings moved to Melbourne where William became a warehouse director. Encouraged by her mother, Edna studied at School of Horticulture Burnley, gaining a graduate certificate in Dec 1917. She then began work as a jobbing gardener around Melbourne. Asked by an architect to plan a garden ..read more
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Favourite babies' names in Australia, 2024
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by Hels
1w ago
In my community, a newborn baby is named after the last beloved relative, of the same gender, to pass away. Thus I was called Helen after my late grandmother Hinde, and my son was called Peter in honour of my beloved grandfather Pinchas. The only argument between the spouses is usually which grandparent to honour first. Although it was only 12 years ago, I was interested to read the names we gave to our newborn babies back in 2012. Now I have read McCrindle Research NSW reported the following 10 most popular names for baby boys and girls in Australia, as chosen in 2024. What names should we g ..read more
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Modernist art glass: Italy & Australia.
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by Hels
1w ago
When I was doing art history, Art consisted of painting, sculpture and architecture. Even illuminated manuscripts were studied for their paintings, not for their other art forms eg book binding, printing, wood cuts. And for students who wanted to write academic theses about silver art, ivories, treen, ceramics or textiles, there was always a desperate scramble to find top quality supervisors and examiners. What changed that for me as a postgraduate was finding other art forms that were fascinating: a] silver art of my beloved Huguenots, b] birth of C18th porcelain in central Europe and c] arr ..read more
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Fryerstown Vic: historic thriving gold town
Art and Architecture, mainly
by Hels
2w ago
Never heard of Fryerstown in Victoria, just a 10-minute drive south from Castlemaine? Neither had I. Yet the locals say this now-tiny town was once home to 15,000 people during the 1850s gold rush, with hundreds of homes, 30 hotels and an endless supply of freshly brewed beers! It must have been a hopping and jumping place; especially in the early days the town was full of hustlers, drinkers and men wanting to cash in on the gold finds, sometimes violently. The Traveller's Guide to the Goldfields  says that the gold nuggets picked up in this area were particularly valuable. Fryerstown c ..read more
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Chocolate lovers: visit Malta
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by Hels
2w ago
I loved holidaying in Malta but now I know there was much more to learn. Display Malta Chocolate Factory Built by the Knights of St John in the mid-C16th on the centrally located Mediterranean island of Malta, Valletta quickly became a very important and cosmopolitan harbour city, and a perfect place through which foreign culinary practices and new exciting ingredients would have been able to enter the island. And, through the influence and strong links that the multi-national Knights enjoyed with overseas regions, some ingredients were able to come into Malta relatively earlier when ..read more
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Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004) was born in Jewis...
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by Hels
3w ago
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004) was born in Jewish New York, son of dad who was a high-school music teacher from the Austrian Empire and mum was Ukrainian. He was no relative of Leonard Bernstein (1918-90), but they were friends and contemporaries. He was educated at the Walden School NY and at New York Uni. He then went to Juilliard School of Music due to the man seen as America's C20th national composer, Aaron Copland, wanted his protege Bernstein to.  Yet it was as a dancer that Bernstein began his working life, doubling as a concert pianist&nbs ..read more
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Janis Fink Ian - what a folk singer!
Art and Architecture, mainly
by Hels
3w ago
Janis Fink (1951-) the American singer, was born and raised on a New Jersey farm,  Fink was raised by Jewish parents; her father Victor taught music, inspiring her early interest in the piano, which she began studying at a very young age. Then she learned to play acoustic guitar and harmonica. Mother Pearl worked in an eduational career, and in that Cold War era, both parents were frequently under FBI surveillance because of their progressive politics. She later attended New York City High School of Music & Art. Young Janis admired the work of folk pioneers such as Joan Bae ..read more
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Weimar Republic 1918-33: great culture, great democracy
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by Hels
3w ago
Pres Paul von Hindenburg Wiki The usual image of the Weimar Republic was one of political instability, economic crisis and cultural decadence. That always seemed ridiculous to me since this republic was Germany’s new system of democratic government after the Second Reich collapsed. The name was chosen because Berlin was still in the midst of revolution when the Imperial period ended in 1918. So the first Assembly for the new Republic was held in Jan 1919 in Weimar instead. My best German era started when Weimar Republic politics became democratic, social freedoms arrived and vibrant artistic ..read more
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Visit architecture in gorgeous Fez
Art and Architecture, mainly
by Hels
1M ago
Let me examine some of the connections between Morocco and Europe I was familiar with. Visitors to the Paros Gallery in Greece should see the Sèvres Imperial Hunting tea service 1812, commissioned by Napoleon as a gift his second wife Empress Marie-Louise. The porcelain and silver gilt cups, saucers and pots each have an individual hunting scene, painted by French artist Jean Francois Robert. Each object slotted into a Morocco leather box, so servants could carry the porcelain wherever the courtiers wanted. The exhibition Napoleon: Revolution to Empire even came to Australia.     &nb ..read more
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Migrants welcome - Bonegilla Australia
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by Hels
1M ago
Bonegilla is a rural area on the western shore of Lake Hume in N.E Victoria. The nearest large township is Wodonga Victoria, 9 km to the west and c12 km from Albury NSW, on the southern bank of Murray River, the border between the two states. Bonegilla primary school was opened in 1876, a railway connection (1889) to Wodonga, and two hotels in 1910. In 1940 a large army camp and military hospital were built at Bonegilla and a huge ordnance base was built nearby, the camp being used to train troops during the war. The hospital cared for them and for wounded soldiers returned from the battle fie ..read more
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