Eric Mitchell monologue of reminiscences and recitations of verse

MLOH 22

fonds

between 1985-1987

411774

Digitised

3 audiocassettes (2 hr., 42 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Eric Mitchell was born Eric Heckenberg in 1905. At the age of five Eric Mitchell was placed by his mother in the Randwick Asylum for the Relief of Destitute Children. When the Asylum was required for returned soldiers during World War I the children were relocated to Darlinghurst. At the age of ten Mitchell was sent to the country to work, and became interested in bush poetry.

Eric Mitchell reminisces about life in the bush and his jobs which included drover's assistant, dairyhand, labourer, wheat loader, and painter on the railways. Some of his memories have been rendered into verse and he also recites some of Henry Lawson's poetry. He invites his brother to recall their uncles, the Heckenbergs, who were competition woodchoppers.

Item 1: Autobiography of Mitchell's life told through Henry Lawson's poetry
Item 2: Family history
Item 3: Poetry
Item 4: Earth Tremor

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