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Oddfellows Lodge 1856

Happy Home Lodge
There have been and are a few odd fellows living in Queanbeyan, but it is safer to write about the distant past than the present when referring to the odd men that are part of our town. 1
The actual head count of Odd Fellows in Queanbeyan, or perhaps the Queanbeyan District, in 1856 [...]

Francis Adams “NSW Corrupt”

1883 Flogging reintroduced
Flogging was abolished in New South Wales, Australia in 1877 and was reintroduced in 1883 – the first priority of the courts was the protection of a man’s property, 1 and thus continued the tradition of the law, in favoring the rich and punishing the poor.
“Something of convictism and the convict still [...]

Success In The City

A Winter’s Tale

1 It was winter in a country town that pretended to be a city. 2
The wind whistled and the lightning flashed and the rain beat down on the corrugated roof.
Occasionally a wisp of wind came down the chimney and stirred the blackened wood in the fireplace.
Until finally there was a last sparkle [...]

New Year 1895

Reprehensible Character
Towards the closing, cloudy hours of the old year 1 the bells of the Queanbeyan Church of England and the Wesleyan Church rang out lustily calling the “devouts” to the exercise of religious services, which were to bring profitable results to the worshipers during the dying of the old 1894 and the birth of [...]

George Zacharewicz

Master Sculptor
George assisted in the enlargement and making of Ante Dabro’s huge Navy Memorial sculpture in Anzac Parade, Canberra – as well as many other works, because as well as producing his own figurative work, others recognized and used George’s talents to their own advantage. 1
Canberra-Queanbeyan sculptor George Zacharewicz 1951-2004 2 could turn his [...]

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