Kevin Densley, with a poem about the violent life of Frank “Captain Melville” McCallum.
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Almanac Poetry: The Capture and Incarceration of Frank “Captain Melville” McCallum (1822-1857)
June 16, 2020 by 1 Comment
Almanac (Pub) History: Walk Like An Historian – the Old Queen’s Head Hotel, Geelong
June 10, 2020 by 6 Comments
The Queen’s Head Hotel in Geelong has gone the way of many old pubs. Kevin Densley remembers a pub he once knew well.
Almanac Poetry: At Campbell’s Creek Cemetery, Victoria
June 8, 2020 by 6 Comments
Kevin Densley dives back into the world of history and memory with a poem which searches for answers that became a sojourn among the stories of the past etched in stone.
Almanac (Footy) History: Geelong FC’s Original Home Venue – the Argyle Ground
June 4, 2020 by 9 Comments
Kevin Densley tells the story of the earliest playing venue of the Geelong Football Club, the Argyle Ground.
Almanac Poetry: The Story of Fisher’s Ghost Creek
June 2, 2020 by 4 Comments
Kevin Densley, with a poem about foul doings at Fisher’s Ghost Creek.
Almanac (Footy) History: Memories of Corio Oval, Geelong
May 28, 2020 by 20 Comments
Kevin Densley provides a background to Corio Oval in Geelong which provided a setting for footy and harness racing for decades. Its current day use will not thrill you.
Almanac Poetry: ‘Another A to Z of Footballers Past’
May 26, 2020 by 2 Comments
Kevin Densley has produced another footballing A-Z in verse.
Poem – Brief Sketches of Members of the Kelly Gang
May 19, 2020 by 9 Comments
Kevin Densley, on the Kelly Gang members.
Poem – The Shooting of Fred Lowry
May 12, 2020 by 9 Comments
Another slice of poetic Australian history from Kevin Densley. This time, the sorry demise of bank robber Fred Lowry.
Poem – A Notable Colonial Fistfight
May 5, 2020 by 26 Comments
Kevin Densley pays poetic tribute to an epic stoush between Ned Kelly and Isaiah ‘Wild’ Wright.
Almanac Poetry: The Night of the Premiership
April 19, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Kevin Densley’s poem on the 2007 Geelong premiership.
Almanac Poetry: A to Z of Footballers Past
April 14, 2020 by 10 Comments
Kevin Densley puts an A-Z of retired footballers to verse. (Who would you have picked for U? – Ed).
Poem – Harlequin with Australian Rules Football
April 9, 2020 by 2 Comments
Kevin Densley paints a picture with poetic words about our great game of footy.
Almanac Poetry: Two Championship Performances
April 5, 2020 by 2 Comments
Kevin Densley compares two spectacular feats from two different eras. [Welcome Kevin – Ed]
Almanac Teams: A Real Bushrangers’ Australian Rules “Twenty”
January 15, 2021 by 16 Comments
This week, KD supplies an Australian Rules bushrangers’ “Twenty”, made up of actual bushrangers. You know it’s a strong side when ‘Bold Jack’ Donohue, ‘The Wild Colonial Boy’, just scrapes in on a half-back flank!
Almanac Music: Australian Summer Songs – Name a Personal Classic.
January 1, 2021 by 54 Comments
Summer, memories and music go together so well. In this piece, KD asks Almanackers for a favourite summer song, a ‘personal classic’, and provides one of his own.
Almanac (Music) Memoir: Freshwater Creek: are you ready to rock’n’roll?
December 18, 2020 by 2 Comments
In his prose piece this week, KD writes about an early gig his band, Murmurs, played at Freshwater Creek Hall, near Anglesea, Victoria, in 1980. He recalls being surprised – and more than a little concerned – about how the gig was advertised.
Almanac Food: KD’s Kitchen – Worcestershire Sauce – My Favourite Condiment (What’s Yours?)
December 10, 2020 by 12 Comments
In this instalment of KD’s Kitchen, he extols the virtues of Worcestershire Sauce and invites Almanackers to respond with their own favourite condiment.
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