Sandy Thorne, local author and poet, will launch the newest community publication, Opaladies - Stories in the Cultural Mosaic at Lightning Ridge on Good Friday morning on the historical society's back veranda.
This is truly a local production.
Women's stories have been mostly collected by Cilka Zagar and edited by yours truly.
Margie Schofield has illustrated the 84-page paperback and Gale Collins of the newly opened Black Queen, has done the cover layout.
Copies will be on sale for $10.
Then, the Annie Thompson Collection of 1910 photos will be dedicated.
Arthur Buckley heard about his mother's 'rattling good times at the Ridge' as a kid and will visit for the first time.
Other Thompson family members are joining him as he explores the place of her youth 95 years ago.
See you on Good Friday, 10.30am, at 9 Morilla Street next to the Crocodile Caravan Park.
You will enjoy perusing our miner's cottage too.
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