Graeme Blackman : site caretaker at Mount Stromlo Observatory

Blackman, Graeme; Winternitz, Judith

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Graeme Blackman : site caretaker at Mount Stromlo Observatory

Authors

Blackman, Graeme

Winternitz, Judith

Publisher

The Australian National University

Description

Graeme worked as the Site Caretaker for many years, living in several houses on the site including one which was destroyed in the 2003 bushfires. Graeme tells of life at Stromlo from a site-wide perspective including raising his children there and his memories of the fires