Patricia Leslie

Welcome to my strand of the World Wide Web. Writing Tools: tip #4 Dropbox Subscribe to receive articles and tips every week in your inbox Local History: Exploring Local Museums If you want to get to know more about a local area (regional, city or country) then get yourself to the local museum. I recently visited the Camden Museum and was fascinated by the cleverness of their exhibition layout, the expert curation, and the obvious commitment of the local historical society. I

This article originally appeared on Suzanne Adair's Relative History site under the title: Gadigal Land It takes more than a surface look to see the levels of history on display in Sydney. Especially, if you’ve come from a country where an old building could be anywhere from 200 to 700 years, where crumbling ruins dot the landscape and point to a built-history much older, more fraught with intrigue and story than anything you’ll see in Australia. Stories here are layered. Fro