People and History

“Rene’s hobby took the form of a personal challenge to record her choice of the most significant scene, events and buildings in the town she lived in. Her work was not large in size nor in variety, but it is marked by a determination to achieve a high standard.

By Krista Schade Armed stand-offs over establishing the town of Hay, pulling down buildings as they were being constructed, and shallow graves for the unfortunate are all tales from the town’s early history, when Lang’s Crossing Place was the domain of a few determined people. The locality where

By Krista Schade Prior to the establishment of hospitals in the Hay Area, many women birthed alone on the outlying stations. In fact, between 1859 and 1867, twenty-one births were recorded as having no midwife present. Stations included “Illiliwah”, “Burrabogie”, “Gelam”, “Nimmie”, “Toganmain”, “Yunbarren”, “Eli Elwah”, “Benduck”, “Boonara”, “Mungadal” and

By Kimberly Grabham Driving back and forth from Deniliquin over the years, one’s imagination would surely be ignited by the legend of the Headless Horseman. Legend tells of the Headless Horseman riding the saltbush plain on his grey steed, striking fear and often terror into the very hearts of