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Audio: Long history of a short river: The Maribyrnong
An audio walking tour along Melbourne's Maribyrnong River led by author and historian, Jenny Lee.
Jenny’s walking tour starts above the bend in the river that is the site of the now-defunct Commonwealth Explosives Factory, and takes in sites of Indigenous settlement, industry around the river and the current McMansion invasion.
The tour goes for 27 minutes and has nine stops.
The Maribyrnong
The Maribyrnong is a short river, only 50 km from tip to toe, but it has a long history.
The river valley has been home to the Marin Balug people of the Kulin nation for some 40,000 years and bears many signs of their
presence.
It was also a major channel for the European occupation of Port Phillip, first as a pathway to the Western District for sheep-owners and their stock, then as a source of bluestone and sand for the growing city and a dumping ground for its noxious wastes.
Tour guide Jenny Lee
Jenny Lee became an editor by accident in 1982, when she began working on a multi-author critical history of Australia (A People’s History of Australia, 4 vols, 1988). She edited the literary and
cultural quarterly Meanjin from 1987 to 1994. Jenny has been co-ordinator of the postgraduate Publishing and Communications program in the School of Culture and
Communication at the University of Melbourne since 2003. She is deputy chair of the OL Society, which publishes Overland literary journal.
Her book Making Modern Melbourne was launched at the 2008 Melbourne Writers Festival and was a Top 10 bestseller on the first weekend of the festival. Making Modern Melbourne charts the city’s story from illegal village to modern metropolis.
Credits
This audio tour was recorded and edited by me, Jane Curtis/saucybeige, produced by Melbourne Community Radio 3CR, and funded by the Office of Public Records Local History grant program.
It was also done as a live walking tour led by Jenny Lee at the 2009 Melbourne Fringe Festival.
This audio tour is part of a bigger "audio tour project" :) - there's 17 so far, with more planned for 2010! - called People's Tours http://peoplestour.net
Enjoy!! This part of the Maribyrnong is another world, really.... it's so beautiful.
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08.02.10 — Andrew Davies
Hi Jane,
Thanks for sharing this on Pool. Really enjoyed it! Thanks also for letting us know about the 'People's Tours' project - really interesting. Sounds like 2010 is going to be a big year for audio tours!
Andrew, Pool Team