A bushwalk takes Col back in time
Back in about 1970, Colin Maybury went on an overnight bushwalk with his two daughters in the Gloucester Tops area of NSW. Searching for dry kindling in an abandoned hut, he found three very old letters. Sensing these may have been of interest to other people, he transcribed them and wrote an article around them. He had planned to wait until 1987 - a hundred years since the first of the letters was written - but his elderly mother asked him to publish them earlier, since she wanted to see them in print "while I'm still…