Anita Buswell

Salmons of Ashmont (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ashmont was the name of the land where the family led by James and Mary Ann Salmon lived from 1922. It was then on the outskirts of Wagga Wagga, NSW, and now lends its name to a suburb of that city. The old family home is today part of the Loreto Home of Compassion and a carpark stands where there was once a magnificent orchard.

James and Mary Ann had 10 children and this book tells of their personalities, interests and conflicts and the financial difficulties faced during the Depression years.

Within the framework of the stories of each of 10 children and their parents, Anita Buswell shows how rural New South Wales changed in the first half of the 20^th century. The children went to school on horseback, by horse and sulky and later by bicycle. Dad finally bought a car for his eldest daughter. Her father was a generous man unwilling to charge his creditors and got caught out badly by the financial crises of the Depression. Her mother had to keep things going with small business enterprises like selling eggs.

Family pastimes included exploits on horses at local gymkhanas and rodeos, flying lessons for one brother, violin classes, singing and dancing around the piano, choir, bush poetry.

The book includes photos of family members and their beloved horses, and the cover drawing by Denise McKenzie is based on iconic family imagery. A print version of the book was published in 1996.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Riverton Press
• Seitenzahl: 30
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780648230540
• Artikelnr.: 59387530

Autorenporträt

Anita Buswell was a woman with a great sense of humour and sharp wit. Wife, mother, gardener, carpenter, jack of all trades, hand that rocked the cradle, hand that cradled the rock. A farmer's wife who turned her mind successfully to things as diverse as the Stock Market, poetry, magnetism and electricity and theology for the earth. Anita published the family memoir Salmons of Ashmont in 1996 and held a memorable book launch at the time. Her book of poetry Me in the Middle appeared in 2018, and Anita wrote many short stories, plays, poems and letters to the Editor during her lifetime. Together with Grace Pierson, Anita wrote Ripples, a history of the Country Women's Association in New South Wales (1982). When asked to describe herself for the back cover of Me in the Middle, she replied: "I love horses, poetry, my late cat and my family, not necessarily in that order. I am inspired by the mystery and connectedness of life." Anita Buswell lived all her life in the Riverina, New South Wales (1922-2018).