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Norman McVicker's column Tales from along the Wallaby Track is published in the Mudgee Guardian on Monday every week.

List of Wallaby Track columns for 2011

Year: 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011

Date PublishedWT NumberTitle
2011.01.031110 Diaries: recording events, Pt 1 (Stories of the First Fleet diarists, Bowes-Smyth and Bradley)
2011.01.101111Diaries: recording events, Pt 2 (Stories of the First Fleet diarists John Easty and Jacob Nagle)
2011.01.171112Diaries: recording events, Pt 3 (Continuing the diary of Jacob Nagle & George Worgan)
2011.01.241113Diaries: recording events, Pt 4 (Transcript of James Scott’s Diary and First Australia Day)
2011.01.311114George Crossley: lawyer, forger, fraudster. (The life, times and crimes of George Crossley)
2011.02.071115Frederick McCubbin: art teacher, painter (The life, times and career of Frederick McCubbin)
2011.02.141116Mary Grant Bruce: storyteller (The life, times, career and books of Mary Grant Bruce)
2011.02.211117Grace Bussell: national heroine ( The life, times and rescue epic of Grace Bussell)
2011.02.281118J.T.Bigge and his damning reports (The conflict between Bigge and Macquarie)
2011.03.071119Rowe Street: Sydney’s Bohemia (The story of the tenants of Rowe Street and the Lincoln Inn)
2011.03.141120Catherine Helen Spence: novelist, social reformer (The life, times and career of Catherine Spence)
2011.03.211121William Buckley, wild white man (The life and times of William Buckley)
2011.03.281122Robert Towns: merchant and entrepreneur (*published out sequence *2011.02.28) (The life, times and business career of Robert Towns)
2011.04.041123Sydney’s Gem: the first garden (The story of the Botanic Gardens & Alan Cunnungham)
2011.04.111124Great White Fleet peace mission (The arrival of the Great White Fleet 1908 in Sydney)
2011.04.181125Earl Beauchamp: vice-regal high jinks (The story of Earl Beauchamp as Governor of NSW)
2011.04.251126Redmond Barry: judge and arts advocate (The life, times and judgements of Sir Redmond Barry)
2011.05.021127Namatjira: lost in two worlds (The life, times and work of artist Albert Namatjira)
2011.05.091128Francis Cadell riverboat captain (The Life, times and death of Francis Cadell)
2011.05.161129Victorian era: going shopping (The story of the draper, grocer, butcher and baker c1870s)
2011.05.231130Anthony Trollope in Australia (Life, Times visit to Australia of Anthony Trollope)
2011.05.301131Terra Australis fact or fiction (The story of early explorers and the Flying Dutchman)
2011.06.061132Convicts and ‘a splendid theatre’ (The first play and the Emu Plains Theatre)
2011.06.131133Ralph Rashleigh a convict’s story (The story behind the novel and the life of James Tucker)
2011.06.201134Alex Riley police tracker (The life of a police tracker and Roy Governor)
2011.06.271135Adam Lindsay Gordon bush balladist (The Life, times and poetry of Adam Lindsay Gordon)
2011.07.041136Mrs ‘Mac’ (Kenzie)—a dot with dash (The Life and work of Florence McKenzie)
2011.07.111137Joseph Fowles father of drawing (The life, times and drawings of Joseph Fowles)
2011.07.181138Eliza Donnithorne’s great expectations (The Life, times and legend of Eliza Donnithorne)
2011.07.251139Chloe: Australia’s nude icon (The story of “Chloe” painting)
2011.08.011140A Boy who reached for stars (The life and times of Harley Wood)
2011.08.081141Servants: honest, loyal, discreet Pt 1 (Governor Macquarie and George Jarvis)
2011.08.151142Servants: honest, loyal, discreet Pt 2 (Stories of Mary Rouse and Mary Jelly)
2011.08.221143Servants: honest, loyal, discreet Pt 3 (Stories of Charles Whalan and Elizabeth Berry)
2011.08.291144Theatre: more than a name 32 (Mudgee Town Hall Theatre and others)
2011.09.051145Orphans: female vagabonds (The founding of the Female Orphan School)
2011.09.121146Orphans: male street urchins (The founding of the Male Orphan School)
2011.09.191147Orphans: masters and misfits (Biographies of Masters of Male Orphan School)
2011.09.261148Ernest Slade and moral depravity (The life and times of Ernest Slade)
2011.10.031149They’re off! Racing at Hyde Park (The story of first horse race in NSW)
2011.10.101150Olive Pink: a grand old lady (The life of Olive Pink, artist, anthropologist and gardener)
2011.10.171151Leonski: terror after dark! (The life of murderer Edward Joseph Leonski)
   


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