Local Publications For Sale

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NEW BOOK!

from the author of this website

Diane de St Hilaire Simmonds

together with beautiful paintings by local artist Judy Kurtz

Portrait of Mudgee and District by Judy Kurtz, with historical notes by Diane de St Hilaire Simmonds.

A quality coffee table book of 30 colour prints and 6 sepia drawings by renown artist, Judy Kurtz, with historical notes by Diane de St Hilaire Simmonds, all of the Mudgee region, Gulgong, Rylstone, Kandos, Goolma, Wollar, Capertee, Hill End, Hargraves and more.

Price: $39.95 plus postage and handling.

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Questions for Recording Family History by Diane de St Hilaire Simmonds
	Hundreds and hundreds of questions and directions for successfully recording your Grandparents’, Mum’s, Dad’s or Neighbours’ history. The questions bring out lively discussion, the Notes pages keep you on track,  and the experience will take you for a beautiful trip down memory lane with your family, and to your own childhood as well. Record your family’s story now, before it is too late. This book gives you the inspiration and the how to do it. The book is A4, desktop published with plastic spiral binding.
Order by email: info@mudgeehistory.com.au  54pp  Price: $16.00

Australian Christmas Poems by Diane de St Hilaire Simmonds
	A collection of Australian Christmas Poems and Australian bush flower photographs written and photographed over 20 years. Being about Christmas, the poems have a religious flavour. religious flavour.
Order by email: info@mudgeehistory.com.au  33pp  Price: $16.00

Cobb & Co Heritage Trail Bathurst to Bourke by Diane de St Hilaire Simmonds
	Cobb & Co is an Australian story that stretches from America, across the states of Australia to New Zealand, South Africa and Japan. This in-depth history of Cobb & Co from Bathurst to Bourke takes the reader on an unforgettable journey.
Order by email: info@mudgeehistory.com.au  98pp  Price: $20.00

Annie’s Easy Treats by Anne Mayne and Diane Simmonds
	Heritage recipes, easy to make. Take a trip down memory lane for all those old fashioned lollies grandma and mother used to make for the school fetes and special days: sherbet, toffees, fudge, popcorn, barley sugar, coconut ice, gingerbread men.
Order by email: info@mudgeehistory.com.au  66pp  Price: $15.00

Telling Tales by Kevin Pye and Time is a Traveller
	Kevin Pye captures the past in a series of poems of characters, cricket, history and humour of the culturally rich Mudgee district. Kevin has the ability to combine humour and truth, past and present, characters and achievements in his poems.
Order by email: info@mudgeehistory.com.au  Price: $25.00

Marshes & Mighty Mammals: A biography of Joy Lee’s life as a Conservationist.  By Joy Thomson and Kay Andos
	The story of Mudgee woman, Joy Thomson and how she established PYE (Protect Your Environment) clubs around the world and inaugurated Project Jonah in Australia.
Order by email: info@mudgeehistory.com.au  200pp  Price: $35.00

Artist—Jennifer Lewis Beechey Specialising in oil paintings of landscape and animal portraits, particularly working horses of yesteryear.
	Jenny Lewis Beechey is a renowned Mudgee artist with a large collection of art for sale.
Contact for list of painting: info@mudgeehistory.com.au

Mudgee—A Nest In The Hills
	Published by the Mudgee Historical Society, now in its 5th reprint. A booklet offering a brief glimpse of some of the people and organizations that have contributed to the development of the town of Mudgee since settlement in 1821.
Order by email: info@mudgeehistory.com.au  35pp  Price: $10.00

Artist—Judy Kurtz and Ross Kurtz Specialising in oil paintings of landscape and portraits.
	Judy Kurtz and her husband Ross Kurtz own the Stoney Creek Studio in Mudgee. Both prize winning professional artists, their work is highly acclaimed and prized. This painting depicts the Mudgee village of Wollar.
Contact for list of painting: info@mudgeehistory.com.au

Album by Bob Campbell, Home Rule Band and Mudgee’s Folk Music artist.  Freedom on the Wallaby
	Home Rule's music is influenced by folk and rock as much as anything. The strong underlying sense of the traditional music is there, to be sure. The dance rhythms, the lift, the lilt - but in feel and content is energy and drive.
Order by email: info@mudgeehistory.com.au  Price: $19.50

Album by Bob Campbell, Home Rule Band and Mudgee’s Folk Music artist.  Home rule
	A compilation of twenty years recording of Home Rule Band. Home Rule was founded in 1984 when Bob Campbell, Sharon Frost, Andy Mortimer and Bob Burns got together in Mudgee and began regular sessions at Roth’s Wine Bar. 20 years of success!
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Henbury, The Early History of a Country Golf Course by Colleen O'Sullivan
	A book for the history lover, general reader and golf enthusiast. It reflects the lives of country men and women in the 1930s particularly in the Kandos-Rylstone area. It also tells the story of a group of visionaries who 'created something out of the ordinary' and two women who fought on the fairways. Henbury was designed by two famous golf architects.
Order by email: info@mudgeehistory.com.au  200pp  Price: $18.00

A Walk in my Footprints by Pamela O’Connor
	History of the Kelly family in the Mudgee region: William Michael Kelly and Ada May Talbot and their families and descendents.
Order by email: info@mudgeehistory.com.au  200pp  Price: $35.00

They Made Their Own Way by Doug Swords and Pauline Bassingthwaighte
	A collection of reminiscences of senior Mudgee and district residents on early settlement, Eurunderee, corner shops, service stations and garages, war, entertainment, nursing, rural life, schools, mail runs, horses, Lucerne farming, sheep industry, railway, sport.
Order by email: info@mudgeehistory.com.au  A4 166pp  Price: $25.00

Ghosts of Burrendong by Dale Edwards
	The building of Burrendong Dam and the people and places it dispersed, Yarrabin and the Meroo River, Gold, Burrendong Aboriginals, rabbits, Macquarie River, Oakey Creek, Gundowda, the Goninans.
Order by email: info@mudgeehistory.com.au  A4 84pp  Price: $30.00