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Further along Sheridan Street are the floodplain bridges and the town Cenotaph designed by marble sculpture Frank Rusconi. His cottage home is on the corner of Araluen Street where he worked on his marble masterpiece. This masterpiece created over 28 years using around 21,000 pieces of NSW marble of different colours and from 20 different quarries is truly remarkable. Rusconi was born in NSW but learnt marble carving in Europe. His notable works include headstone in Galong cemetery, a marble stairway in Westminster Cathedral, the altar of the Tumut Catholic Church, the Gundagai Cenotaph, the base of the Dog on the Tucker Box etc.
Among the early gold miners to rush the fields was a Norwegian digger Niels Larsen. On 17th June 1867 Larsen’s wife gave birth in their tent to a baby who they named Henry changing their surname to Lawson at the same time. WE do not know but Lawson built a slab hut so Henry could have been born in that. His mother Louisa made meals and sold them to the diggers for income. Niels Lawson soon moved his family to Mudgee and that is where Henry Lawson spent most of his childhood. For some years young Henry travelled the country out west doing sheep farming work with his father which gave him later inspiration for his outback stories. In 1883 Henry Lawson went to live in Sydney with his mother. Louisa established a suffragette paper for women called Dawn. She had her own printing press and Henry Lawson’s first short stories and prose were printed by his mother. His mother, with Peter Bell, printed the radical journal called the Republican. By this time she had separated from Henry’s father. Henry accepted a newspaper job in Brisbane in 1891. His first story in the Bulletin was published in 1888. By the mid-1890s Henry had taken up drinking. Despite travel and writing and several bouts of depression he persisted with life. After his wife Bertha separated from him in 1920 he took up drinking again and attempted suicide after which he entered a deep depression and downhill slide psychologically. He died alone in 1922. Although Henry Lawson did not spend much of his life in Grenfell the site where the slab hut was built was recorded and a plaque dedicated in 1924 with Lawson’s estranged wife and daughter attending the ceremony. A tree was planted at the site at that time. Grenfell was early in its recognition of Lawson’s contribution to Australian literature and folklore. The town also established the Henry Lawson Festival, which is still held annually, in 1957 when few towns were thinking about attracting tourists to their regions or honouring their prominent citizens. The festival covers music, singing, poetry photography, writing, theatre etc. Lawson is commemorated on our ten dollar note.
Although not a grand town Grenfell has charm and history. Big changes came to the town when wheat was first grown in the surrounding countryside from 1871 onwards but transport costs were a problem. A spur railway line from Cowra reached Grenfell in 1901 and agriculture expanded. A flourmill was erected in the 1880s but it burnt within a few years. It was replaced with the Challenge flourmill in 1901. That mill still stands although not in use. It produced flour for our troops during the World War Two and it finally closed in the 1960s. The heritage buildings of Grenfell include the Courthouse (1879), the School of Arts (1890) and Methodist Church (1928) in Camp Street and the Anglican Church (1877) and Presbyterian Church (1870) in Middle Street etc. In the Main Street look out for the William Wardell designed old Union Bank building built in 1890, the old Temperance Hall from the 1880s, the beautiful Exchange Hotel 1912 and the Albion Hotel which dates from 1866.
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Marble Lizards: Basking in Paestum's Glow ☀️
In the ancient embrace of Paestum's ruins, two marble lizards rest gracefully upon the weathered base of a column, as if sculpted by the hands of time itself. Bathed in the golden radiance of the sun's warm embrace, they exude an aura of timeless elegance amidst the ancient stones. Each contour of their sleek forms captures the essence of antiquity, while the sunlight plays upon their 'marble' scales, casting delicate patterns of light and shadow upon the sacred ground. In this tranquil moment, the boundary between art and life blurs, as these 'marble' sentinels stand watch over Paestum's timeless legacy.