Month: December 2020

The Camden News affronted by Sydney ‘flappers’ and the appearance of the modern girl.
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The Camden News affronted by Sydney ‘flappers’ and the appearance of the modern girl.

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The modern girl appeared in Camden in the 1920s as she did elsewhere in the world. One representation of the modern girl was the 'flapper' who had a variety of responses in the town.

Take a stroll through the past
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Take a stroll through the past

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The past is all around us and has created the present. The present would not exist without the past. We need to understand the past to understand the present.

Camden Rotary Pioneer Mural: public art, a mural, a memorial wall and a wishing well
Aesthetics · Agricultural heritage · Art · Artists · Attachment to place · Belonging · British colonialism · Burragorang Valley · Camden · Camden Hospital · Camden Story · Church History · Coal mining · Colonial Camden · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Dairying · Dharawal · Farming · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical thinking · History · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Memorial · Memorialisation · Memorials · Memory · Mid-century modernism · Modernism · Monuments · Pioneers · Place making · Public art · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Settler Society · Social History · Stereotypes · Storytelling · Tourism

Camden Rotary Pioneer Mural: public art, a mural, a memorial wall and a wishing well

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The Camden Pioneer Mural is an example of public art. The Camden mural depicts the Camden story as interpreted in 1962 by ceramic artist Byram Mansell.