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In 1879 Sydney hosted the International Exhibition.
A specially designed building was erected on the edges of the Botanic Gardens to house the exhibition. It was grandly called the Garden Palace.
Tragically the Garden Palace and everything inside was destroyed by fire in 1882.
Stored inside was a huge collection of Gadigal artefacts of cultural and historical significance.
Over a hundred years later, Jones went searching for some of the cultural material from where his family came from. He discovered that most of it was destroyed in the Palace Garden fire.
The sense of loss and forgetting around this event spurred Jones on to find a way to reconnect and understand what happened here.
" Perhaps the fire was a kind of cultural burn, regenerating the site for future generations."
Full review here - http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2017/11/barrangal-dyara-skin-and-bones-jonathan.html
A specially designed building was erected on the edges of the Botanic Gardens to house the exhibition. It was grandly called the Garden Palace.
Tragically the Garden Palace and everything inside was destroyed by fire in 1882.
Stored inside was a huge collection of Gadigal artefacts of cultural and historical significance.
Over a hundred years later, Jones went searching for some of the cultural material from where his family came from. He discovered that most of it was destroyed in the Palace Garden fire.
The sense of loss and forgetting around this event spurred Jones on to find a way to reconnect and understand what happened here.
" Perhaps the fire was a kind of cultural burn, regenerating the site for future generations."
Full review here - http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2017/11/barrangal-dyara-skin-and-bones-jonathan.html
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