User talk:DrTad

"Bound for South Australia" (song): I edited the excellent short page to include the beautiful capstan shanty published by Jack Manifold in the mid-60s folk boom, and also to expand the information beyond the wool clippers to the wheat ships which sailed from Port Victoria and other Spencer Gulf ports in South Australia as fleets up to World War II, with scattered ships sailing until 1949, about 10 years before I started visiting Port Victoria as a child. See Eric Newby and The Last Grain Race for more on the wheat windjammers.

List of historic houses in South Australia
''The Laurels (Mt Barker) John Dunn's house was built in 1857. His steam mill was built in 1844, now 14 Cameron Road. His first stone residence, the Mill Cottage at 16 Cameron Rd, was built in 1846''

Thanks! Do you think the 3 buildings merit 3 separate entries? (i.e. I think they do.) If you agree, please feel free to add the other two. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 13:29, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

2 separate entries! The Laurels was so named because Dunn saw it as his prize for the business success (i.e. a la Olympic Laurels, laurels of victory, not trees in the driveway!.   The Mill, and the Mill Cottage, are integral to each other (though under separate ownership) and together represent the basis of the South Australian State Heritage Listing. Alas, all that remains of the third component of the Mill complex is a single pillar from the corrugated iron grain store.  I'll get there eventually with fleshing out.  I started writing a letter to a US correspondent about the mill, and discovered the glitches on Wikipedia. Part of the problem is that Dunn's Memoirs, collated in the 1990s, seems not to be available to anyone, anywhere! (DrTad (talk) 14:51, 24 August 2014 (UTC))

Invitation to Adelaide Wikipedia Users Group meetings
Hi, in case you're not already aware of it, a group of Adelaide Wikipedians has been meeting on a monthly basis since April, with the aim of improving the scope and quality of articles on South Australian topics. We meet at UniSA's City West campus, and our 27 August meeting will have as a guest the local history librarian from the Port Adelaide Library. The focus of this will be on the setting up of a semantic media wiki for Port Adelaide in collaboration with the National Trust of SA, so you may find areas of common interest with some of the other participants. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 15:52, 24 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Thank you, wasn't aware of this. I am interested, but can't get to the upcoming, I'm in the field for the next, and embroiled in opera workshop for presumably) the next. Do you have any circulation? notes? (DrTad (talk) 22:56, 24 August 2014 (UTC))


 * There's a list of past meetups on the Meetup/Adelaide page, which links to individual pages for each of the recent meetups, and these contain summaries of the discussions. Although the group is still small, we are getting a bit better at this, and for some time I've also been trying to engage with the major SA cultural institutions in the hope of setting up some GLAM-wiki collaborations (some of my efforts are listed here). We've also been communicating off-wiki by email, as it's easier to send reminders and share resources in a more timely fashion this way. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 01:08, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Seen and replied to mail! I'll look at other things at leisure. Thanks again! (14.2.32.186 (talk) 02:24, 25 August 2014 (UTC))