{"id":4326,"date":"2020-08-14T12:34:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T02:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2024-06-17T16:02:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T06:02:56","slug":"historic-picton-telling-the-stories-of-pioneers-of-the-district-the-good-and-the-tragic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/historic-picton-telling-the-stories-of-pioneers-of-the-district-the-good-and-the-tragic\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Picton: telling the stories of pioneers of the district &#8211; the good and the tragic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image.png 1024w, https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Testing cars is not just about their features and\nperformance.&nbsp; It is about how well you travel\nin them and what you can do when you get to a destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a trip to the Highlands for the launch of some new Audis, we\npassed through Picton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We sat in a park just near <a>St Marks\nAnglican Church and Pioneer Cemetery<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One tombstone hints at the tragedy of Janet Robinson&#8217;s life.\nBorn in Scotland and died in Australia in 1903 aged just 31. It would be nice\nto know some more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While more details of her life are not available, beside 12\ngraves there are little plaques with a QR reader symbol on each one\nindividually.&nbsp; You point your phone at it\nand you can hear a short recording of some historical details of the person or\npersons buried there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stories behind twelve of the graves have been researched,\ncompiled and written by <a>Elizabeth Villy <\/a>know to all\nas Betty, whom we managed to catch up with and have a chat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Betty covered a range of subjects including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The story behind the lives of Mary Horton and her son Claude Stafford<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Claude&#8217;s father died when he was 5, his mother died when he was 12. When he was about 18 he died in Mt Kembla Mine disaster of 1902 along with three cousins and along with 92 other men and boys.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The horrendous working conditions in the mines in 1902<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why she is researching a range of people, not just the rich and well connected<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Modern research systems let you search through old records for keywords, but the old methods mean you look at not only the story but the whole newspaper page, including the ads, and thus get a sense of the times in which the person lived.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Betty also did some research on the old Razorback Road.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Historic Picton: telling the stories of pioneers of the district - the good and the tragic by Driven Media\" width=\"740\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F875496604&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=740\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testing cars is not just about their features and performance.&nbsp; It is about how well you travel in them and what you can do when you&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2941,2931,320,2936,2935,2930,2940,129,1700,1259,982,2942,2939,49,2937,1221,25,2932,2934,29,2933,2943,2938],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-2941","tag-anglican","tag-audi","tag-betty","tag-cemetery","tag-church","tag-claude-stafford","tag-david-brown","tag-driven-media","tag-elizabeth","tag-history","tag-mary-horton","tag-mine-disaster","tag-motoring","tag-mt-kembla","tag-nsw","tag-overdrive","tag-picton","tag-pioneer","tag-road-test","tag-st-marks","tag-tourism","tag-villy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5510,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions\/5510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}