Barney Sutherland News Today

JOANNE NAISH/STUFF West Coast attraction Shantytown, a gold-rush village featuring 30 pioneer buildings, has been in business for five decades. Volunteers built Shantytown on a wing and a prayer. Fifty years later, its still going strong. Joanne Naish reports. Shantytown is so close to Grey mayor Tania Gibson’s heart she even got married there. She takes her children on the same steam train she fondly remembers from her own childhood visits. She married her husband, Stephen, in the pretty l...