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Fifty years ago, jackpot fever swept the country as thousands of punters thronged race courses throughout the country in their search for the mythical pot of gold. The vision of Bay of Plenty Racing Club President Mr WS Holland and live wire club administrator Ian McEwan, which kicked off with a modest pool of just $733 on the 22nd March 1969, gripped the country until the Government changed the rules around five years later. The old sweepstake betting which was in vogue before the turn of the (twentieth) century, had never been abolished, so jackpot betting was legal as long as the entire po...

Rare Thomas Moran watercolor to be unveiled at the Amon Carter Museum Thomas Moran (1837–1926), Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, ca. 1879, watercolor and graphite on paper, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 2020.1 FORT WORTH, TX .- This summer, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art will unveil the acquisition of a rare watercolor, Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah (ca. 1879) by Thomas Moran in an exhibition that will explore the origin of the work—a little-known story of the artist’s westward journe...

Amon Carter Museum to unveil rare Thomas Moran watercolor this summer Feb 24, 2021 | In the summer of 2021, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art is set to unveil the watercolor Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah (ca. 1879) by Thomas Moran in an exhibition that will explore the origin of the work — a little-known story of the artist’s westward journey along the transcontinental railroad — within the context of both the history and the art of the period, as well as Moran’s renowned career. The newly acquired watercolor will be exhibited alongside a v...

Advertisement Peter Mahoney's tale of pistol training for Commonwealth Bank tellers in the 1970s (C8) reminded Peter Moran of Oak Flats of a mate of his, who was a young bank teller in that era, who "told of driving the accountant at his branch, armed with a pistol, from Kiama to Warrawong (about 30km) to collect a large cash top-up on pension day. The ad-hoc armoured car? A Mini Minor." More tales of subterranean Sydney (C8) from Allan Gibson of Cherrybrook. "In one of Granny’s former 'homes', once The Wales House, there was a trapdoor in the branch accountant's office on the ground floor,...

Duty Calls: Honor Guard funerals far fewer in 2020 Terry Brown FacebookTwitterEmail New York Army  National Guard Sgt. Joshua Sanzo a member of the northern district Honor Guard, salutes the casket of Victor Frager during a military funeral in 2018 at the Gerald B. Solomon National Cemetery, Schuylerville.Spc. Andrew Valenza / New York Army National Guard Scores of New York National Guard Honor Guard soldiers and airmen had far less military funerals to perform last year and the elite soldiers and airmen had to adjust the way they performed their duties. Pandemic restrictions on funeral serv...