Postcards from the town that disappeared
“Now the forest has reclaimed this place and hardly any trace of the town of Wielangta can be seen. But it is still here – a rusted boiler, decaying tramline beneath the moss, daffodils still bursting forth fifty springtimes on.”Together they travel through the thick forests of Tasmania to deliver mail to the town of Wielangta after school. This was to be the boy’s last summer of delivering mail, before a series of bushfires ravaged the area and the town was finally abandoned. Set during the 1920’s, this fictional story, along with the richly evocative paintings, archival photographs and snippets of correspondence, creates a vivid historical portrait of the hardships and joys of living and working in a timber town in Tasmania during the early decades of the twentieth century.
This book has been acknowledged by The Children’s Book Council of Australia 2005 awards and is listed in the publication – ‘Notable Australian Children’s Books 2005’.
The book is available for purchase for $25 from the Forest Education Foundation.