ameerat42
10-03-2021, 6:53pm
Or, Happy Birthday to Some-of-Us :D
Yes, Mudgee officially turned 200 this week :bcake: < read 28.57 of these = 200 :D
I went past this house and stopped to ask the owner (I've known him for[ty or more] years) what the decorations were about.
I was :Doh:when he told me, as last time that thought crossed my mind was about last December. I had roundly f:orgotten about it since. His family has been in the district since the 1840s.
Anyway, this is a pano I took (the owner was too camera-shy to be in it, but then he's a bit of a celebrity now). The flags in the BG are royalty-free images (links below).
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Apparently the celebrations have been muted. I remember in 1971 the town was in party mode for a week. This was all at his own expense, as he takes local history seriously,
and good on him! He has kept up a family tradition where his grandfather, father, and now himself have done this sort of thing for the 100th, 150th and 200th anniversaries,
respectively.
Here are two links about it:
https://www.mudgeeguardian.com.au/story/5616284/the-debate-about-mudgees-bicentenary/
and
https://www.mudgeeguardian.com.au/story/7156430/stephens-humble-mission-to-celebrate-mudgees-bicentenary/
The links for the flag images:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3f/Australian_Aboriginal_Flag.svg/1280px-Australian_Aboriginal_Flag.svg.png
https://flaglane.com/download/australian-flag/australian-flag-large.jpg
Yes, Mudgee officially turned 200 this week :bcake: < read 28.57 of these = 200 :D
I went past this house and stopped to ask the owner (I've known him for[ty or more] years) what the decorations were about.
I was :Doh:when he told me, as last time that thought crossed my mind was about last December. I had roundly f:orgotten about it since. His family has been in the district since the 1840s.
Anyway, this is a pano I took (the owner was too camera-shy to be in it, but then he's a bit of a celebrity now). The flags in the BG are royalty-free images (links below).
146013
Apparently the celebrations have been muted. I remember in 1971 the town was in party mode for a week. This was all at his own expense, as he takes local history seriously,
and good on him! He has kept up a family tradition where his grandfather, father, and now himself have done this sort of thing for the 100th, 150th and 200th anniversaries,
respectively.
Here are two links about it:
https://www.mudgeeguardian.com.au/story/5616284/the-debate-about-mudgees-bicentenary/
and
https://www.mudgeeguardian.com.au/story/7156430/stephens-humble-mission-to-celebrate-mudgees-bicentenary/
The links for the flag images:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3f/Australian_Aboriginal_Flag.svg/1280px-Australian_Aboriginal_Flag.svg.png
https://flaglane.com/download/australian-flag/australian-flag-large.jpg