Showing posts with label Broken Hill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Broken Hill. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

A MUSICAL MYSTERY ...



Anyone know anything about this great photograph? It comes with Broken Hill associations, courtesy of Ian Large and Jason Roweth, and depicts a very interesting group of nineteenth-century musos (1880s-90s?). The fiddlers and the bloke on the intriguing shovel-handle bass look faintly American, maybe it’s the hats! But the cornet-player (?) is wearing bowyangs, suggesting Australia. Any thoughts in Comments, please.

Thursday, May 2, 2019

CHEESESLAW - FOODLORE


Broken Hill's famous local delicacy is a classic example of folklore in action. In this case it's a traditional recipe that comes from - who knows where? It has become the signature dish of the town and its people and its name is now officially enshrined in the Macquarie Dictionary. Read all about it here.