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Sheer Fantasy Experience
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Sheer Fantasy Experience

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Sheer Fantasy Experience is an innovating and challenging art exhibition.

Address to Camden Council supporting a motion for a heritage protection sub-committee
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Address to Camden Council supporting a motion for a heritage protection sub-committee

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Address to Camden Council supporting a motion for a heritage protection sub-committee

A country show comes to town, Camden Show 2018
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A country show comes to town, Camden Show 2018

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The 2018 Camden Show is the 132nd event of this festival celebrating local rural life. In 2019 over 40,000 attended the annual festival.

Alan Baker Art Gallery opening at Macaria, a brush of class
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Alan Baker Art Gallery opening at Macaria, a brush of class

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The 2018 opening of the Alan Baker Art Collection in the colonial gentleman's townshouse of Macaria in Camden's John Street heritage precinct.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post and its Art-Deco newspaper office and printery
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post and its Art-Deco newspaper office and printery

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In 1935 a moderne Art-Deco style office was opened for the Goulburn Evening Penny Post

Australia Day 2018 in Camden
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Australia Day 2018 in Camden

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Australia Day 2018 in Camden drew large crowds to the town centre for the festival for the street parade.

A local treat at The Argyle Affair
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A local treat at The Argyle Affair

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One Camden festival held recently was The Argyle Affair at the Camden showground.

2017 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award
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2017 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award

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The Fishers Ghost Art Award has been an important cultural event in Campbelltown for over 50 years.

Out and about at Cobbitty Markets
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Out and about at Cobbitty Markets

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On a frosty Saturday recently the CHN blogger attended the Cobbitty Markets. The carpark was covered with a light shade of white while the thermometer hovered around zero degrees. The markets have been on Cobbitty Public School site for what seems likes for ever. The stalls are tucked around every conceivable corner. In the front… Continue reading Out and about at Cobbitty Markets

Richlands, an outpost of a colonial farming empire
Aesthetics · Agricultural heritage · Agriculture · Attachment to place · British colonialism · Colonial frontier · Colonialism · Convicts · Cowpastures · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · England · Families · Farming · Georgian · Goulburn · Heritage · Historical Research · History · History of a house · House history · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Legends · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Memory · Pioneers · Place making · Ruralism · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Tourism

Richlands, an outpost of a colonial farming empire

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The Richlands estate, north of Goulburn in the NSW Southern Tablelands, was an important part of the Macarthur family pastoral empire for nearly 100 years.  The Richlands estate acted as an outstation about one days ride west of Camden Park estate.