Departures and Arrivals

This is an installation of 900 christening bonnets honoring the babies who died in Female Factories throughout Van Diemen's Land. There were an estimated 1200 babies born at the Female Factory at Cascades, South Hobart. 75% did not survive. The bonnets were sewn by women throughout Tasmania and the mainland to an authentic colonial christening bonnet pattern. The artist is Christina Henri.

Tantalizing Tales of Tasmania

November 14th 2005
For those of you who have been keeping up with our blog entries, you know that in the last entry from Melbourne we said we were off to Tasmania and didn't know what to expect. Well, this is another one of those places where we were soooooo glad that we did because we both loved it! We rented a car for a week and decided just to drive around and stop at places that looked good to us. We made it ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Hobart

Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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