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| Geri Hayden, Merv Abraham and Christie Kington |
The Boyagin Rock Working Committee will continue to provide updates as they happen. It is expected that a draft of the storybook will be available for comment in the first half of 2015.
Hi All
The day was very casual, on the day Mervyn Abraham, Elvis
Bennell, Vince Holt, Janet Hayden, Dot Rodney, Aubrey Hayden, Geri
Hayden, Christie Kingston, David Grasby & Kerry Collard (Horan) attended at
Boogin. One of the local farmers also came across to say hello.
Some stories were collected in the afternoon from those who
stayed, Janet, Geri, Elvis, Aubrey & Dot as mentioned by Geri below.
I also received apologies from Fay Slater & Vivienne Hansen.
Thanks Geri for starting the ball rolling over the weekend, it
was a good opportunity for Christie & David to see Boogin & to meet
some of the participants of this project. It was a lovely day out and it was
great to hear some of the stories & the respect people hold for Boogin and
each other.
I understand that some participants would like to record stories
as a bigger group all together. In this case, we need to remember on the day we
need reasonable conditions to use audio & camera and for everyone to be
mindful that we are using stories in a story book format. It is harder to
record in the larger group and we will have to stop & start & move
equipment to get the story and/or come back to people for the parts we miss.
The design of the storybook is a little unknown until we know what the stories
are and the decisions about which stories will be used & the design of the
storybook will come from the ideas of working group. I would like to reiterate
what Vince has mentioned about getting individuals stories from participants,
those who are unable to make the bigger group days we are happy to make times
(and it’s our preference to do individual/ family interviews) with people at
their homes or another convenient location.
Wheatbelt NRM will not be responsible for setting dates of the
larger group meetings, we want to support this project as much as possible as
it’s such a great project to be part of. However our part of the project is
around developing the storybook. Which involves for the most part:
- meeting participants,
- coming along to record significant activities as co-ordinated by working group,
- making appointments recording individual participants (family groups) to tell stories were appropriate,
- collecting & researching documentation, photographs etc,
- reviewing material for publication where appropriate (at different stages) with the working party
- We are happy to make a collection of photographs available on CD for participants at the end of the project
I would also suggest that face to face meetings with the working
party at different stages would be helpful to provide feedback, progress (be a
general point of contact)to discuss issues etc. Vince may be this is something
for you to talk to the group about as we do not have everyone’s contact, and am
unsure of who are representative of each of the groups involved in the project
and its too difficult to manage communication for this aspect of the project
with so many people involved in the project. I assume the working party has
representation of the families/ people involved in the overall project? It is
especially important as Wheatbelt NRM isn’t involved in all the aspects of the
project but we would also have an idea of other things that are happening.
Wheatbelt NRM will Vince as the first point of contact for the project, in any
case.
Regards Kerry
Kerry Horan
