Vern Davis interviewed by Chris Woodland for the Chris Woodland folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2869639
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Davis, Vern, 1928-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1993 Sept. 13
- 1 sound tape reel (ca. 33 min.) ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Chris Woodland folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Davis describes his childhood and family background; early families along the upper Deua River; the Rankin's droving turkeys to Moruya; Black Alec, an Aborigine who lived at Cooranbene; connection of electricity in 1963; receiving their first radio broadcast in 1940; isolation after heavy rain; Vern's brother Everett being the first person to drive across Moodong Creek; receiving yearly stores from McIlraith's in Sydney; appearance of kangaroos along the Deua from 1943; dingoes and working as a dogger in 1960s; shooting a white dingo; death of Dick Naggs; Dick Dempsey; learning from the radio; working for John Bradly, Murray Hyland and Keith Harrison; his record collection of country music; only leaving the property to pick up mail; floods; 1953 bushfire; open fire cooking at Woolla; lining kitchen before Christmas with newspaper; installation of solar telephone in 1987.
- Biography/History:
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Davis has spent almost all his life living in a slab hut on his family property, Woolla, on the isolated Deua River near Araluen, N.S.W.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at Canowie via Araluen, N.S.W. on 13 September 1993.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-220768928
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (2 p.) and transcript available (typescript, 17 leaves)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Woodland, Chris, 1938-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Chris Woodland folklore collection.
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- Until 2063 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1993
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