THERE’s a little inner extrovert — some more than ‘just a little’’— lurking in all of us.
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In Lithgow’s case it emerges twice a year — at Halloween and Ironfest — and the more bizarre the better.
Extroversion in a grand scale was out there again at the weekend with everything from creatures of the night to Bananas in Pyjamas haunting our CBD streets, or shops, clubs and pubs.
Literally thousands, locals and visitors, again let it all hang out for that big dress up day of the year.
Halloween has its critics just as Christmas has its Grinches but if crowds of people from little kids to big senior citizens are out there enjoying themselves then it’s a delight to see and long may it continue.
Halloween was just part of a big weekend of well organised district entertainment; just a pity that the people behind the annual Back to Hartley and Portland Spring Fair celebrations can’t get their heads together to avoid a conflict of dates.
Studying our museum
LITHGOW’S State Mine Museum takes on an international tone on Tuesday, October 3. A party of 13 Japanese mining engineers from the Sichuan Regional Geological Survey Bureau will be visiting the museum and meeting with the volunteer officials as part of an Australian study tour. Learning from the ghosts of our mining history or recognition on the world stage?
In search of Simmo
FLINDERS University (Adelaide) undergraduate Dylan Bateman is seeking help from Mercury readers. He wants information on an old friend John Simmons who in years gone by conducted a quirky Simmo’s Museum at Glen Davis. Dylan lost track of his mate around 2012 and now believes he may have passed on. If that’s indeed the case Dylan would like to know a little information including his final resting place so that he can make a final visit.
Just contact Kirsty Horton (kirsty.horton@fairfax media.com.au) and we’ll pass it on. We’ll be even happier if Simmo is indeed still around and gives us a call.
Actions speak louder
PLEASING to note police promises of a crackdown on hoons who year round make the Newnes State Forest a danger zone for all and sundry. Wild driving in 4WDs, quads, dirt bikes and buggies presents a danger to everyone, including the hoons. But promises are only as good as the enforcement that follows and past experience with the short lived efforts involving police, National Parks, Forestry and Lithgow Council has been less than encouraging.
