Wallaby Track Columns 2011

Norman McVicker’s Tales from along the Wallaby Track Year 2011

Date Published WT Number Title
2011.01.03 1110 Diaries: recording events, Pt 1 (Stories of the First Fleet diarists, Bowes-Smyth and Bradley)
2011.01.10 1111 Diaries: recording events, Pt 2 (Stories of the First Fleet diarists John Easty and Jacob Nagle)
2011.01.17 1112 Diaries: recording events, Pt 3 (Continuing the diary of Jacob Nagle & George Worgan)
2011.01.24 1113 Diaries: recording events, Pt 4 (Transcript of James Scott’s Diary and First Australia Day)
2011.01.31 1114 George Crossley: lawyer, forger, fraudster. (The life, times and crimes of George Crossley)
2011.02.07 1115 Frederick McCubbin: art teacher, painter (The life, times and career of Frederick McCubbin)
2011.02.14 1116 Mary Grant Bruce: storyteller (The life, times, career and books of Mary Grant Bruce)
2011.02.21 1117 Grace Bussell: national heroine ( The life, times and rescue epic of Grace Bussell)
2011.02.28 1118 J.T.Bigge and his damning reports (The conflict between Bigge and Macquarie)
2011.03.07 1119 Rowe Street: Sydney’s Bohemia (The story of the tenants of Rowe Street and the Lincoln Inn)
2011.03.14 1120 Catherine Helen Spence: novelist, social reformer (The life, times and career of Catherine Spence)
2011.03.21 1121 William Buckley, wild white man (The life and times of William Buckley)
2011.03.28 1122 Robert Towns: merchant and entrepreneur (*published out sequence *2011.02.28) (The life, times and business career of Robert Towns)
2011.04.04 1123 Sydney’s Gem: the first garden (The story of the Botanic Gardens & Alan Cunnungham)
2011.04.11 1124 Great White Fleet peace mission (The arrival of the Great White Fleet 1908 in Sydney)
2011.04.18 1125 Earl Beauchamp: vice-regal high jinks (The story of Earl Beauchamp as Governor of NSW)
2011.04.25 1126 Redmond Barry: judge and arts advocate (The life, times and judgements of Sir Redmond Barry)
2011.05.02 1127 Namatjira: lost in two worlds (The life, times and work of artist Albert Namatjira)
2011.05.09 1128 Francis Cadell riverboat captain (The Life, times and death of Francis Cadell)
2011.05.16 1129 Victorian era: going shopping (The story of the draper, grocer, butcher and baker c1870s)
2011.05.23 1130 Anthony Trollope in Australia (Life, Times visit to Australia of Anthony Trollope)
2011.05.30 1131 Terra Australis fact or fiction (The story of early explorers and the Flying Dutchman)
2011.06.06 1132 Convicts and ‘a splendid theatre’ (The first play and the Emu Plains Theatre)
2011.06.13 1133 Ralph Rashleigh a convict’s story (The story behind the novel and the life of James Tucker)
2011.06.20 1134 Alex Riley police tracker (The life of a police tracker and Roy Governor)
2011.06.27 1135 Adam Lindsay Gordon bush balladist (The Life, times and poetry of Adam Lindsay Gordon)
2011.07.04 1136 Mrs ‘Mac’ (Kenzie)—a dot with dash (The Life and work of Florence McKenzie)
2011.07.11 1137 Joseph Fowles father of drawing (The life, times and drawings of Joseph Fowles)
2011.07.18 1138 Eliza Donnithorne’s great expectations (The Life, times and legend of Eliza Donnithorne)
2011.07.25 1139 Chloe: Australia’s nude icon (The story of “Chloe” painting)
2011.08.01 1140 A Boy who reached for stars (The life and times of Harley Wood)
2011.08.08 1141 Servants: honest, loyal, discreet Pt 1 (Governor Macquarie and George Jarvis)
2011.08.15 1142 Servants: honest, loyal, discreet Pt 2 (Stories of Mary Rouse and Mary Jelly)
2011.08.22 1143 Servants: honest, loyal, discreet Pt 3 (Stories of Charles Whalan and Elizabeth Berry)
2011.08.29 1144 Theatre: more than a name 32 (Mudgee Town Hall Theatre and others)
2011.09.05 1145 Orphans: female vagabonds (The founding of the Female Orphan School)
2011.09.12 1146 Orphans: male street urchins (The founding of the Male Orphan School)
2011.09.19 1147 Orphans: masters and misfits (Biographies of Masters of Male Orphan School)
2011.09.26 1148 Ernest Slade and moral depravity (The life and times of Ernest Slade)
2011.10.03 1149 They’re off! Racing at Hyde Park (The story of first horse race in NSW)
2011.10.10 1150 Olive Pink: a grand old lady (The life of Olive Pink, artist, anthropologist and gardener)
2011.10.17 1151 Leonski: terror after dark! (The life of murderer Edward Joseph Leonski)
2011.10.24 1152 The Dunny: a business disposal unit (The history and stories of the “Dinkum Dunny”)
2011.10.31 1153 Remittance Man and his descendants (The life and times of Isaac Robinson)
2011.11.7 1154 Australian Jails: part of history (The story of jails, Charles Crump & nursery rhyme)
2011.11.14 1155 Nursery Rhymes: the secret history (The hidden histories behind nursery rhymes)
2011.11.21 1156 Dancing: steps in time (The story of the Saturday night “hop”)
2011.11.28 1157 Shearers: demons on the Darling (The burning of paddle steamer “Rodney”)
2011.12.05 1158 James Underwood: first ship builder (The Life, times and career of James Underwood)
2011.12.12 1159 Marcus Clarke: His Natural Life (The life, times, career and novel of Marcus Clarke)
2011.12.19 1160 Christmas: fact, fiction and myth (The stories of Christmas)
2011.12.26 No publication

History and locality of Budgee Budgee, The life and work of Norman McVicker, Pocket Playhouse, Theatre memories, and Tales from along the Wallaby Track