ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

I have posted a short piece about visiting Avenel, the town where a young Ned Kelly rescued a boy from drowning, on my blog.

You can find it here:
http://www.stephenwhiteside.com.au/975/

That's a story that is not so well known Stephen - Lovely to hear it and thank you for sharing it with us. Look forward to hearing Maggies recording. Well done

Thanks, Maureen. The father of the boy he saved presented him with a large green sash with gold fringes as a token of his gratitude. When Ned was captured at Glenrowan, he was wearing the sash under his armour. The surgeon who examined his wounds 'souvenired' it, but it re-appeared many years later, and is now on permanent display at the Costume & Pioneer Museum in Benalla - still blood stained.