The Galahs – New Australian Documentary (plus giveaways)

Tony Wilson’s The Galahs is now available on DVD! Don’t miss this legendary documentary about the first Victorian AFL stars who jetted off to Ireland in 1967 to challenge the All-Ireland champions, County Meath, at their own game.

(Read on for details about the Almanac’s special giveaway)

Elizabeth High 1977 – Class 12.2: Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?

It’s now 40 years since Swish and his cohorts from Elizabeth High faced their Matriculation year. How’d they turn out?

Tennis and Eternity

Under the glorious elms at Yarrawonga, Dips ponders the essentials of life; generational change and mortality, tennis, music, and realising, as Shakespeare wrote, that “life is but a walking shadow.”

Almanac Music: The Sinner of ’69 – The Rolling Stones’ Let It Bleed

Leaving no stone unturned, Mickey Randall rolls through some classic Rolling Stones albums.

MCG Memories – The 1956 Olympics

This week is the 60th anniversary of the start of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Ann Rusden tells about going along to watch, not knowing she would later be friends with one of the athletes in action.

Cricket matters

With a Datsun Sunny named ‘Boony’ at short leg and once being dismissed by the Virgin Mary, Ged McMahon reflects on the current cricketing crisis in the context of his own backyard of dreams

A Day on the Green: Nostalgia by the North Para

It was 1998 again, last weekend in Tanunda. What Mickey Randall’s sayin’ is true.

Almanac memoir: Man and Beast Extract – Island Bream

John Harms doesn’t get to Fraser Island with PJ and the crew anywhere near enough. It is paradise.

Man and Beast: Snake Dog

In this extract from the recently released anthology Man and Beast, edited by Andrew Rule, Anson Cameron tells the boyhood tale of his brave dog.

Almanac Cricket: A Poor Batsman’s Guide to Scoring a Century

You never forget your first. Here’s Craig Dodson’s

Grand Final 2016: When the West came to the West – A Bulldogs Tale

It seems everybody has a Doggies yarn. Peter Sweeney throws his into the mix.

Almanac Music – Jazz and Me

While Mickey Randall’s own music career was fleeting, once he found jazz he found a love that was enduring. From his youth in Kapunda, his Mum & Dad’s jazz records showed him there was a bigger world out there to visit.

Almanac Music: Smokie’s new Stereo Story

As the opening chords of Under the Milky Way softly made their way through the speakers, I asked the woman with whom I was planning to spend the rest of my life to dance with me. “I like this,” she whispered.

Almanac Travel: A Warrnambool Winter

Andrew Starkie travels back to Warrnambool to share old and new memories with his daughter.

Almanac Memoir: Mickey Randall’s birthday

Birthdays are a time for reminiscing, and for Micky Randall many a loved memory has been recalled.

Rotary Lunch: John Harms, Alicia Sometimes and Nicole Hayes at Brunswick St. Oval (May 28)

Come one, come all, to the Brunswick Street Oval for lunch this Saturday (May 28). John Harms will chat with Alicia Sometimes and Nicole Hayes – editors of the book “From the Outer: footy like you’ve never heard it.” [Bookings are open – Ed].

In memory of Elfie

End-of-life conversations can be difficult. Yvette Wroby shares thoughts and words from a memorial speech she made for her recently departed mother, Elfie. [Our condolences Yvette – Ed].

Awe

Boarding a plane turns out to be surprisingly awesome for Trucker Slim. Thoughts turn to footy

A club is bigger than the team.

In this retrospective piece, David Parker reflects on his journey and his Footy Club.

Passion Is No Ordinary Word

Swish has lost his passion. Help him out.