Editorial

The Editor’s Desk
Readers’ letters from around the world.

The Irreverent Evers: On the Road Again by Nick Evers

Portfolio: Rob Burnett
The architecture of Launceston.

Botanica: The Colours of Summer by Jim Duggan

Food and Lifestyle: Gourmet Indulgences by Oliver Robb

Art: Fine Design in Stanley by Oliver Robb
Cutting-edge creativity in the far North-West.

SciTech: Danger – Jack Jumper! By Warren Boyles
Combatting the potentially fatal bite of Myrmecia.

Gardens: The National Rose Garden by Warren Boyles
A treat for the serious rosarian.

National Trust: The Old Umbrella Shop by Sue Shott

Views and Reviews

Parting Shot: Owzat!

A Pilgimage to the Walls of Jerusalem by Mark Schulman
A bushwalker’s testament.

A Modern View of Christmas by Douglas Lockhart
On the origins and meanings of Xmas.

Summer Festivals for the Senses by Warren Boyles
The pleasures of the ‘south island’.

Errol Flynn – Tasmanian Devil by Bob Casey
An extraordinary Tasmanian.

Horses for Courses by Bert Wicks
Champion thoroughbreds since the earliest days of the colony.

A Policeman for Two Nations by Darcy Erwin
A Tasmanian American, winner of a US Presidential Medal.

A New Home for the TSO by Warren Boyles
|The Federation Concert Hall and Convention Centre.

Australian Axeman’s Hall of Fame by Catherine Stark
The sport of woodchopping had its beginnings in Tasmania.

Crown of Fire by Nick Fitzgerald
The world’s tallest hardwoods.

Year of the Mountains – Island of Mountains
Concluding a year-long festival with altitude.

Take Home a Piece of the Island

A Walk through Antarctic History by Warren Boyles

Much More Than a Friendly Institution by Sheila Given
Friends’, Hobart’s Quaker school