Sewerage ghost towns. They exist. Just ask Sorrowing Father, Dear Daughter and Blackened Boy, and Yankee doodle dandy that smiles with the eyes and his shadowy mate. They and other colourful characters tell the unique and untold story of the community once living alongside sewage lagoons and paddocks watered 24 hours a day with Melbourne's sewage. A story like no other that combines fact, memory and legendary tale, told by the ghosts of the past through a timeless reality.A must-read literary nonfiction about the families that built and maintained the Metropolitan Sewerage Farm: from early workers and their families camping on the foreshore in the 1890s, living and working through the Great Depression, both world wars and boom times of the 1950s, to ultimately abandon homes in the 1980s to leave a sewerage ghost town.CLOTH HARDBACK EDITION
Sewerage ghost towns. They exist. Just ask Sorrowing Father, Dear Daughter and Blackened Boy, and Yankee doodle dandy that smiles with the eyes and his shadowy mate. They and other colourful characters tell the unique and untold story of the community once living alongside sewage lagoons and paddocks watered 24 hours a day with Melbourne's sewage. A story like no other that combines fact, memory and legendary tale, told by the ghosts of the past through a timeless reality.A must-read literary nonfiction about the families that built and maintained the Metropolitan Sewerage Farm: from early workers and their families camping on the foreshore in the 1890s, living and working through the Great Depression, both world wars and boom times of the 1950s, to ultimately abandon homes in the 1980s to leave a sewerage ghost town.CLOTH HARDBACK EDITION
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My homeland is India, far, far away from where I live today. I raised my children here and I really wanted to have them hear some of the stories that my mother and grandmother used to tell when I was...
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