"A Tennant Childhood: Kevan Weaber Remembers".AVI
This video uses oral history and family photographs to tell the story of the Tennant Creek goldrush which kept the wheels of the Australian economy turning during the Great Depression. The gold field's history is told through the memories of the son of the blind miner who owned the richest mine in 1930s Tennant Creek. It was made to accompany "Freedom, Fortitude and Flies" a social history exhibtion at The Battery Hill Mining Centre. The sounds in the film have been created to echo themes in oral histories of the period. The truck engine you can hear is the engine of the truck which actually delivered the mail from Alice to Tennant before WW 11. A complimentary resource, the recorded letters of France Udall who lived on the gold field from 1930-1942, has been published as a PDF document with embedded audio at the NT Library at http://hdl.handle.net/10070/238944. The text of Francie's letters can be found in 'Discovering Local History at the Battery Hill Mining Centre' published as an e-book by NT Library and available as a free download from http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/handle/10070/238946. This booklet also contains a time-line of Tennant Creek History and other educational activities for school and recreational use. These resources were made by Megg Kelham, an Alice Springs based professional historian, as part of the Collaborative Museums Educational Project with support from the Regional Museums Support Grant Programme, Museum & Art Gallery NT.
This video uses oral history and family photographs to tell the story of the Tennant Creek goldrush which kept the wheels of the Australian economy turning during the Great Depression. The gold field's history is told through the memories of the son of the blind miner who owned the richest mine in 1930s Tennant Creek. It was made to accompany "Freedom, Fortitude and Flies" a social history exhibtion at The Battery Hill Mining Centre. The sounds in the film have been created to echo themes in oral histories of the period. The truck engine you can hear is the engine of the truck which actually delivered the mail from Alice to Tennant before WW 11. A complimentary resource, the recorded letters of France Udall who lived on the gold field from 1930-1942, has been published as a PDF document with embedded audio at the NT Library at http://hdl.handle.net/10070/238944. The text of Francie's letters can be found in 'Discovering Local History at the Battery Hill Mining Centre' published as an e-book by NT Library and available as a free download from http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/handle/10070/238946. This booklet also contains a time-line of Tennant Creek History and other educational activities for school and recreational use. These resources were made by Megg Kelham, an Alice Springs based professional historian, as part of the Collaborative Museums Educational Project with support from the Regional Museums Support Grant Programme, Museum & Art Gallery NT.