FRIDAY FOSSICKING 12th August 2022

* GENERAL INTEREST

GSQ Blog... My Valentine Karyn Walker

QCWA and Kingaroy Branch celebrate 100 years this month Judith Salecich

Author keeps promise to publish father’s memoir — The Sunshine Valley Gazette

N. B.   Corn and Shadows is Available as a Free E-Book   Humoring the Goddess

National Family History Month   blog post about putting your family history into context    Get started with Trove

National Library newsletter

National Archives UK newsletter incl. We are open for visitors this Sunday!        Festival of Britain

Learn about how our volunteers have gained new insights into military nurses in the First World War

Eltham District Historical Society Inc.   August Meeting: Early Eltham, J.H. Clark Photos

Vale well known Irish genealogist Jane Lyons

Tinteán Magazine

ENDA MURRAY AND THE IRISH FILM FESTIVAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA PROGRAMME

The Shanahans of Kangaroo Flat       

Do Australian Catholic schools have an Irish history?

The Man from Clare who started Australia’s Biggest Gold Rush

TRUST/ MUINÍN by David Harris   New Irish Non-Fiction.      

My Book of the Year  Ar thóir gach ní In search of everything

What’s On

Wunderlust Twins

Stone Bridge, Lake District, England   Mt. Fishtail, Nepal bishow joshi

Aurora Borealis in Glacier National Park Rick Huntsman

Salty cave view on the shores of The Dead Sea, Jordan 

Ancient Stairs, Positano, Italy Old Town, Edinburgh, Scotland

Spiral Staircase Slide, Barrington, Illinois

by WanderingtheWorld on Flickr.Another beautiful view of Vernazza on Cinque Terre Riviera, Italy.    Spring Blossoms, Sweden

Mountain Rail, Yukon, Alaska  Finnich Glen, Scotland

Dunn’s River Falls in Jamaica

Outback Family History

Five Little Graves –       When East Meets West Alan Gledhill        

The Torpey Girls in Australia-   

Typhoid : digging for ended in digging a grave

Atlas Obscura

The British Library’s Vulgar Dictionary    Agua Caliente Park Arizona

Culinary Tour: Gas Station Edition  The Great Seed Detective

Church of St. Francis of Assisi Krakow, Poland. Juliet's Balcony

Norway’s Demon Wall Langlais Sculpture Preserve    Food On the Go

Venetian Bookbinding Tradition   Verzasca Dam Switzerland

A Personal New England Tour    The Blue Whale of Catoosa

Ruins at Coco Mat Athens B.C. Hotel Athens  Big Spring Missouri

New Zealand’s Blue Mushroom  Apollo Lunar Sample Displays Nepal

The Warrior Women of Dahomey    When Fish Rode the Rails.  

Ralph Kramden Statue NY Witch Cakes   When Life Becomes Art

Half-Century-Old Soup Thailand The Delight of Echidnas

Calling Fans of Hardtack  Is Solar Roasting the Future?  Aretha Franklin Subway Tributes  Switzerland’s Chimney Sweep ‘Mafia’

Warrior Women Crossword    Portland Puppet Museum

Give This Rat a Chance     Home Through Food, Illustrated   The Tombstone House  Resurrecting a Cider Tradition Balboa Park Botanical Building and Lily Pond Hunters of the Deep

Grand Central Terminal Whispering Gallery Maine’s Hidden Magic

JSTOR Daily

Bourbon Country    The Changing Face of Southern California

Bugs Bunny Scholarship Is a Wascally Wesearch Wabbit Hole

The Symbolic Survival of The Master and Margarita

The Hunt for the Massachusetts “Wild Man”

The Rise and Fall of “True Crime” Radio Dramas

IRISH CENTRAL

Dublin's iconic GPO, at the heart of the city and Ireland's history - IrishCentral 

IrishCentral readers' 30 favorite Irish names for girls 

US adoptees among almost 900 applicants to trace Irish birth parents - IrishCentral 

Brother and sister tragically drown off Co Kerry beach - IrishCentral 

94-year-old American flag to be donated to Laois in honor of Irish pilot - IrishCentral 

The Burren in Co Clare named "Best Place to Holiday in Ireland 2022" - IrishCentral 

Beautiful Irish baby names inspired by places in Ireland - IrishCentral 

Ireland's Natural History Museum reopens - IrishCentral 

ALWAYS INTERESTING

The Weird World of Evil   Faerie Paths — Fairy Child   Sunday Evening Art Gallery – Jennybird Alcantara 

humoring the goddess

Philip Champion de Crespigny, General Manager of the Bank of Victoria Anne Young

#OTD in Irish History | 8 August:      Stair na hÉireann 

It Could Always Be Worse allenrizzi

THE PERSIAN – PLAGUED BY TYPHOID        Pauline Conolly

The Creative Process, Part 2 Janet Maher

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Book Review: Salt and Skin by Eliza Henry-Jones

Book Review: Faithless by Alice Nelson

BETTER READING

The Carnival is Over by Greg Woodland    READ MORE

Twenty-Six Letters by Charlotte Nash  READ MORE

A Recipe for Family by Tori Haschka    READ MORE

While You Were in the Country by Eva Scott  READ MORE

The Keepers of the Lighthouse by Kaye Dobbie  READ MORE

The Furies by John Connolly  READ MORE

Podcast: Tim Winton on 40 Years of Storytelling

Podcast: Brendan Colley on Writing as a Solace

Podcast: Helen Thomas on Melbourne’s Most Notorious Cold Case

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRDAY FOSSICKING 5th Aug 2022, National Family History Month 2022… newsletters, great blogs, murder or suicide-that is the question, body double, virtual record treasury, for mango lovers,

Fantastic Ferris wheels, underwater ballroom, chop suey history, Ireland’s greatest unsolved heist, hot air balloon restaurant,

Monaghan (Ireland) census records from 1500s online, book reviews….

NATIONAL FAMILY HISTORY MONTH... AUGUST 2022 - BLOGGING CHALLENGE, all welcome to enter…

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2022/08/friday-fossicking-5th-aug-2022.html

Headlines of Old

PERSONALS TROVE TUESDAY  9th Aug 2022

local news, good and sad, the social media of years gone by... So many of us relied on the local papers to share our news, read about others, advertise local businesses…many were free, some had a nominal charge…Do you miss the “local rag”?

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2022/08/personals-trove-tuesday-9th-aug-2022.html

Stay safe and well.
This will pass.