Lance Parker interviewed by Rob Willis in Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2641348
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Parker, Lance, 1927-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2003 Aug. 19
- 4 digital audio tapes (ca. 157 min.)
- Series:
- Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Talks about his life and poetry and sings folk songs
Lance Parker, born in Hillston recalls his family background, his father, born 1887 at Oxley, N.S.W, a returned WWI soldier from Gallipoli and France who had acquired a soldier settler block (1925) in Hillston area; his mother's family background, she being a daughter of a blacksmith from Booligal, N.S.W.; early memories of the Hillston area; Lachlan River being dry (1930) and the 1931 flood; Hillston Central School, school ditties to facilitate learning, patriotic pledges: recitation of poetry as a child, picture rag books; family singing and bush poetry; his education at Yanco Agricultural High School; his teaching scholarship to Armidale Teachers College, N.S.W. (1945); his early teaching career in outback New South Wales (Rotto, Gilgandra) in 1 teacher schools (late 1940s-early 1950s); marriage and raising a family; his career change to being a property manager with the closure of the 1 teacher schools.
Parker speaks about managing a property called Talatha, of which he was a part owner for 18 years (mid 1950s-mid 1970s); selling Talatha and purchasing Cascade, the first warm water fish hatchery in Australia on the Lachlan River at Hillston; breeding Golden Perch in hatchery, experiments in egg hatching; the discovery of spawning prerequistes, a discovery which took 11 years to make; the hatchery becoming commercialized, how the nature of fish retailing changed, Golden Perch only sold now; methods of eradicating Carp (fish); his woodwork projects; tutoring country children doing correspondence courses (Plymouth Brethren Children); 2 books on poetry published and sold throughout the Riverina region (N.S.W); the development of his interest in poetry writing, his poetry books stemming from the interest shown at performances; tunes being put to some stories; local history, changes in the environment in the Riverina area from early settlement times.
- Partial contents:
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- TAPE 1 Singing: Father's feet
- Brian O'Lynn
- Cat fish
- Waltzing Matilda (different version learnt from father) TAPE 2 Singing: Father's feet
- Brian O'Lynn
- Cat fish
- Waltzing Matilda
- Banks of the Condamine
- The sick note (first heard in an Irish pub) TAPE 3 Singing: Pie with no sauce
- Storytelling: Why is a cod called a cod? (yarn)
- Uncle Bagshot (yarn)
- Stuttering duckshooter (yarn)
- Recitation: The cancer of cotton (original poem)
- Strange happenings (original poem)
- The spectre in red (original poem) TAPE 4: Woman at traffic lights (yarn)
- Recitation; My brother Eddie (original poem)
- Singing: Abdulla bull bull (song)
- The ladies more lovely by far (song and background information to this song)
- Biography/History:
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Lance Parker - retired grazier.
- Notes:
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- Recorded by John Watson.
- Recorded on Aug. 19, 2003 at Hillston, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia ;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.)
- Subject:
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- Parker, Lance, 1927- -- Interviews
- Poets -- New South Wales -- Hillston -- Interviews
- Farmers -- New South Wales -- Hillston -- Interviews
- Storytellers -- New South Wales -- Hillston -- Interviews
- Australian poetry -- 20th century
- Hatchery fishes -- New South Wales -- Hillston -- Breeding
- Folk songs -- New South Wales -- Hillston
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- Creation date:
- 2003
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