• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH002410

Carolyn Lyons interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording]

  • Repository National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
  • Reference ORAL TRC 3406/14
  • Date Range 23-Mar-95 - 23-Mar-95
  • Description

    1 sound cassette (ca. 57 min.) Lyons speaks of her childhood, her family, her mother, her life on the farm, her husband, her real love and interest in cattle, her trip to France to get some Salers, her involvement in the market and the international market where she is on the verge of developing a new kind of Coonamble beef, her familial problems related to the health of her children, problems associated with drought and the support from people living in the cities; the Ross River fever, its effect on farmers and the possibility to be prevented, her role as a carer for people living on the land.

  • Access Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
  • Finding Aid Transcript available (typescript, 27 leaves.)

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  • Primary Creator
    • Lyons, Carolyn (1944 - )