Apostle Bird
‘a masterful achievement’ Magpies
We have come here to scratch for gold.
Once we had a house, a business and a Packard sedan,
but they are gone now, seized by the bank.
The year is 1934, the time of the Great Depression. The place is a settlement of miners'' dugouts far from the nearest town. Fifteen-year-old Neil and his parents have come from Adelaide, hoping to strike it lucky, but the gold is elu...
‘a masterful achievement’ Magpies
We have come here to scratch for gold.
Once we had a house, a business and a Packard sedan,
but they are gone now, seized by the bank.
The year is 1934, the time of the Great Depression. The place is a settlement of miners'' dugouts far from the nearest town. Fifteen-year-old Neil and his parents have come from Adelaide, hoping to strike it lucky, but the gold is elu...
