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 186
... blackfella . ' ' Aah , you'll have to think of a better name than that to call me , ' he smiled , ' I'm proud of bein ' a blackfella . Anyway , you're a blackfella yourself , what do ya think of that ?! ' Nan was incensed . No one had ...
... blackfella . ' ' Aah , you'll have to think of a better name than that to call me , ' he smiled , ' I'm proud of bein ' a blackfella . Anyway , you're a blackfella yourself , what do ya think of that ?! ' Nan was incensed . No one had ...
Page 265
... Blackfellas cleared the land , put crops in , pulled sandalwood . I remember the lake country used to be full of dingoes , the blackfellas used to track them , hunt them down . Aah yes , no one can say the blackfella didn't do his share ...
... Blackfellas cleared the land , put crops in , pulled sandalwood . I remember the lake country used to be full of dingoes , the blackfellas used to track them , hunt them down . Aah yes , no one can say the blackfella didn't do his share ...
Page 418
... blackfella they knew with a bit of money in his pocket . He was nice to them all , wasn't he cunning ? We always went to see the horses . We loved horses . One time , he took me to the Show . By gee , he was tough . He'd take on anyone ...
... blackfella they knew with a bit of money in his pocket . He was nice to them all , wasn't he cunning ? We always went to see the horses . We loved horses . One time , he took me to the Show . By gee , he was tough . He'd take on anyone ...
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