Re: The Spoken Word in Bush Poetry
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2020 5:21 am
Shelley, I have been to the Bert Hinkler Museum, mainly to learn about how they do things rather than to check out Bert! So was seeing things through different eyes.
I thought it was very well done.... value for modest entry fee ... and the garden/grounds it was set in were lovely.
In addition to interesting historic material, it had a plain good feel about it. Friendly, good staff, effective aircond, but not many visitors there, so no idea how it is financed.. or subsidised?
They had a few nice off-the-wall glass showcases giving an all-round view of an item without intruding into floor-space. Also their small in-wall diorama (ref pic I took) was really well done. I want to do something similar for Banjo meets Kermit Roosevelt at Moascar Camp showing him handing over the inscribed Rio Grande book.
I cannot recall the Hinkler Hustle dance! Maybe it has been added or most likely I was not paying attention, it was a while ago. I have seen the sheet music to the song on-line.. but knew nothing about the dance! Thank you for the tip and I might have to find and add that to the Australian dance section? The lyrics to much music is often rhyming verse, with naturally good meter, so everything is bush poetry related in some way, isn't it.
I thought it was very well done.... value for modest entry fee ... and the garden/grounds it was set in were lovely.
In addition to interesting historic material, it had a plain good feel about it. Friendly, good staff, effective aircond, but not many visitors there, so no idea how it is financed.. or subsidised?
They had a few nice off-the-wall glass showcases giving an all-round view of an item without intruding into floor-space. Also their small in-wall diorama (ref pic I took) was really well done. I want to do something similar for Banjo meets Kermit Roosevelt at Moascar Camp showing him handing over the inscribed Rio Grande book.
I cannot recall the Hinkler Hustle dance! Maybe it has been added or most likely I was not paying attention, it was a while ago. I have seen the sheet music to the song on-line.. but knew nothing about the dance! Thank you for the tip and I might have to find and add that to the Australian dance section? The lyrics to much music is often rhyming verse, with naturally good meter, so everything is bush poetry related in some way, isn't it.