George Passlow interviewed by Alex Hood and Annette Hood in the Alex Hood folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4978546
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Passlow, George, 1910-2011, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2010
- 2 sound files (ca. 164 min.)
- Series:
- Alex Hood folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. George Passlow talks about his mother and his birth; his family, being reared by his aunt and uncle; his relations siblings; how they settled on the North Coast (1901); the family's journey from Cooba near Wagga; life at Pine Creek, later known as Valery; his schooling, his surrogate parents; Aboriginal feasts; the long journeys of local settlers for supplies; becoming apprentice barber at 15 years of age; school playground games; St. Augustine's School; starting bullock driving and farming; taking the cattle to Gunnedah; riding methods; droving plant; bullock driving lore; hauling logs; origins of camphor laurel trees; cedars; his marriage to Nell; his philosophy of life; the running of Valery Post Office; Mick Kelly; corporal punishment at school; the local dances; Minnie Franklin; dance venues.
Passlow speaks about timber milling; timber mills; woodchop contest; how his family split up after his mother's death; taking over the Post Office; moon planting; having an interest in old ways of agriculture; planting for Kellogg's, moving into forestry, working with his brother; showing his breeds in shows, winning prize; cattle droving; learning from the old drovers; his horses; Australian Paper Mills trying to set up plantations around Bonville, problems with Greenies; the project helping to plant flooded gums; planting methods; the company selling plantation to the Forestry; selling the farm and moving to Coffs Harbour in (1964); native birds; logging; meeting of Lyre birds, near Boggy Creek; eating native birds, local Aboriginal hunters, hunting Wonga pigeons; Bullocky language.
- Full contents:
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- George tells stories about: re-naming of the Post Office
- bogged wagon
- two Russian men
- dance teaching, shy learner
- conflict with locals
- Catholic Church at Dorrigo and swearing bullocky
- Homebush Confetti
- his family. Singing: 'Katie' (campfire songs).
- Notes:
- Recorded on 18 and 21 June 2010 in Coffs Harbour, N.S.W.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (4 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Bullockies
- Other authors/contributors:
- Related Records:
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- Until 2080 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2010
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