My PlaceIn 1982 Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmother's birthplace. What started out as a tentative search for information about her family, turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. My Placebeings with the experiences of Sally's own life, growing up in suburban Perth in the fifties and sixties. Through the memories and images of her childhood and adolescence, vague hints and echoes begin to emerge, hidden knowledge is uncovered, and a fascinating story unfolds. It is a deeply moving account of a search for truth, into which a whole family is gradually drawn, finally freeing the tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories. |
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Page 180
... Corunna Downs Station , don't you ? ' ' I've heard her mention that station , ' I replied , ' but whenever I've asked her about it , she clams up . Remember when David got that map of the north and showed her on the map where Corunna ...
... Corunna Downs Station , don't you ? ' ' I've heard her mention that station , ' I replied , ' but whenever I've asked her about it , she clams up . Remember when David got that map of the north and showed her on the map where Corunna ...
Page 214
... Corunna Downs was named by my husband . There is a poem , " Corunna " . He was reading a book at the time with the natives , and in it was a poem about Corunna , I think it was in Spain , so he named the station after that . When I went ...
... Corunna Downs was named by my husband . There is a poem , " Corunna " . He was reading a book at the time with the natives , and in it was a poem about Corunna , I think it was in Spain , so he named the station after that . When I went ...
Page 229
... Corunna Downs , we camped at DeGrey Station . You should have seen all the pretty dresses come runnin ' to meet our wagon . There was red , pink and green , all the colours of the rainbow . They was all runnin ' to come and see me too ...
... Corunna Downs , we camped at DeGrey Station . You should have seen all the pretty dresses come runnin ' to meet our wagon . There was red , pink and green , all the colours of the rainbow . They was all runnin ' to come and see me too ...
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