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In contemporary popular culture, with its focus on youth and immediate gratification, aged persons are typically overlooked, neglected and ignored. In current discourse they might indeed be described as an 'underused resource'. Yet they have much to offer in terms of the richness of their lives and wisdom and insight acquired over many decades.
Tales of Yesteryear: An Oral History Project 'gives voice' to a group of fourteen residents from a residential aged care unit in Brisbane. From these stories, woven from the essence of their lives, and in the specificities of their lived experience through two world wars, a crippling depression and its aftermath, readers will gain fresh insights of an earlier age and a younger Australia.
This collection will prove a useful resource for students of Australian history, and even more for those in the broader community who seek to understand something more of the human condition or who just enjoy a good tale.
Proudly published by Post Pressed
- Florence Austin
'I had a few things happen to me at different times that I don't think the average person would have because [of] ...the war years.'- Mae Cooper
'I don't like Mavis, please call me Mae.'- Victoria Da'Riff
'I met General Booth when I was four years old. I was taken on the platform and handed to General William Booth.'- John William Gledhill
'Life is a wonderful thing... I'd like to have my life again.'- Gertrude Greves
'I have had a wonderful life, a wonderful husband and family. I've got a lot to be thankful for.'- Winifred Hill
'Life is what you make it.'- May Hort
'We loved those days on the road.'- Anne Liebetrau
'In South Africa the mountains were full of wonderful trees and flowers.'- Greg Litfin
'I am truly grateful to the Lord for my having been in so many different levels of work in a voluntary capacity.'- Violet O'Loughlan
'Oh, I loved the army, I loved every bit of it.'- Eunice Philp
'We had a great time over there [Bribie Island].'- Harold Pratt
'Such is life, thou fickle fade.'- Phil Russell
'ad astra per aspera'- Godfrey John Wood
'I've had a good life, I think.'
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