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“See No Evil” Published

Photograph of a book sitting on a table. The book is titled "See no Evil: A childhoood mostly on The Glebe, Hobart 1946-1953". The book author is Peter MacFie. The book cover has a family photograph and a tartan background.Long before his death, Peter MacFie wrote of his early life on The Glebe in Hobart. However, he had trouble deciding when to call it completed. His brother Rob then encouraged him to ‘set it free’ by helping select family photos and Peter was able to approve a draft print before it was too late. Here, Peter tells how the war’s aftermath was not always happy for his parents, but gave himself the freedom for a (mostly) magic childhood running wild on The Domain in Hobart. He was also particularly proud of his assorted convict ancestry and concludes with a family tree.

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“The Wesleyans of Port Arthur” Published

Book cover titled "The Wesleyans of Port Arthur" by Peter MacFie. The cover is filled with a photograph of church ruins at Port Arthur.With the aid of many friends and his editor, this remarkable story of the Wesleyan Chaplains who were appointed by the Government of the day to provide moral guidance to the convicts, military and civilians who lived at Port Arthur from 1833 to the end of 1843 has been completed.

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“The Newsprint” Published

Photograph of book sitting on a table. The book is titled "The Newsprint - A Social and Forestry History of Maydena. An Experimental Logging Town in the Tyenna Valley, Tasmania. 1920-2020." The cover has a photograph of mid-century logging machinery, a silhouette of a forestry worker climbing a tree, and a newspaper article titled "A Forest Crashes into Newsprint".This book is the story of the forestry industry that fed the Australian Newsprint Mill at Boyer in southern Tasmania, the politics behind the enterprise and the people who worked there and lived in Maydena and the wider Tyenna Valley. Over a hundred people were interviewed for this wide-ranging book, from the General Manager of ANM to the whistle boys, and just about every job in between. These included the fallers and the first aiders, nurses and doctors who patched them up, the log measurers, loaders, road makers and the truck drivers who left their names for posterity on the tricky corners where they came unstuck. Plus so many more.

Read more about this book on the Maydena page, or buy it from the Shop.