Lismore CBD Magazine

20/11/2023

CORNDALE
Seventh Day Adventist Chruch
Northern New South Wales.

This post is to acknowledge 115 Years (1908-2023)

In those early days there were few good roads in the area, and many of the streams were unbridged. But despite these difficulties, and the usual vagaries of the weather, the members of the CORNDALE church were always present at meetings and on time, even though some had to travel over sixty kilometres on horseback.

If you have heartwarming and uplifting tales connecting to the Seventh Day Adventist Church from across Australia and wish to share, we'd love to hear from you.

Thank you for the dedication of Mrytle Shelford, who recorded the early years, in which gave me the foundations to write from and looking forward to sharing more in 2024.

Original Corndale church gatherings were held in the Corndale Hall, which sadly floated away down the Wilsons River in the 2022 floods.

Respect and Regards,
Enjoy the snapshot.
John

17/09/2023

03/09/2023

Sunday Sale:
195 Dibbs Street,
East Lismore.

02/08/2023

Richmond River Family History Project.

During the process of connecting with family who have lived in Lismore (and Surrounds) - Connecting with the historical information throughout various archives and linking the stories.

I am building a chapter on religion.... Lismore (surrounding) area, and at present this last month looking over SDA on Urallba St.

Would anyone have any memory/info/photo of the CAMP Meetings?

02/08/2023

DO YOU KNOW THESE PEOPLE?
(See Images of Names Attached)

I am still diving into Richmond River's History and over recent months... delving into 'Lismore's Food History' -

Looking back to when the settlers were industrious with sugar cane, dairy, and market gardening. Family, friends and neighbours would come together in big ambient gatherings. The men folk would talk about the town and tell their tales. Everyone would join in as familiar sounds of homeland song and dance echo'ed though the gully's.

Pivotal to the success of the gatherings was the food! The home cooks are the stars bringing their best to the feast for all to enjoy.

Sifting through the pages, I was inspired by 'Lismore's Home Cooks' from abt. the 1900's onwards, and since I have been connecting old recipe's I have found to the maker.

As a basic reference.
I have enclosed two pages of names.... Some have details and some with no information. Mostly I am looking for family connections. I have the recipe and now I would like to connect the story.

There are locals I know who are connected to these names and of course, I would like to give an explanation about the project in full, if you wish to gain further information on this project.

Apart for my love of food, together with my childhood admiration for home cooking helping my grandparents, this has also come from witnessing locals cooking for the community and assisting with the flood community food relief in 2017 & through-out 2022.

Conclusion: Certainly, this will be available in a digital format and/or, I am currently looking at printing options. It is hovering around 100 pages, and I am still including and adjusting both content and design. No specific deadline, I am favouring end of September maybe with R U OK DAY, but more soon as I know :).

30/07/2023

Lismore area.
No estimate on when power might be return, due to equipment failure.

10/05/2023

Publishing has taklen many paths since I commenced in 1995, now we are embarking on the AI wave of opportunity. Looking over the media over the last few weeks with AI and there is concerns, but are the benefits greater than the risks?

This is a insighful article from a a respected insider.

Technology has reached a new zenith. Artificial intelligence apps can now write research papers, magazine articles, and (allegedly) entire romance novels. AI can even create fake news images of President Trump evading arrest. Is this a good thing? What shall we make of this new wrinkle?

Social media is abuzz with speculation about AI’s potential impact on writing. College professors fear cheating on a massive scale. Editors and proofreaders fear that they might soon be replaced by machines. Valid concerns, all.

Of course, AI is already deeply imbedded in our daily lives: it’s how Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify utilize users’ historical buying patterns to suggest their next purchase. Online vendors use chatbots to answer inquiries from customers. Search engines can give better answers to increasingly complex questions. And so on.

Already, AI apps are at work among publishers. They can format books, detect plagiarism, and spot mistakes that tired eyes might miss. (How did we ever survive, with just typewriters and Linotypes?). The bottom line: we’ve been here before.

As with any advance in technology, we can expect to see winners and losers. Some workers will lose their jobs, while others will never get hired. Next, there will arise newly created professions that we have yet to imagine. (Twenty years ago, who had ever heard of a podcast producer or a rideshare driver?) Creative destruction is the natural evolution of our economy, and resistance is futile. (Show of hands, please: Who thinks we should bring back telegraphers, or lamplighters, or pinsetters? Anyone? I thought so.)

With the advent of our new(ish) self-publishing technology, not long ago many manufacturers rushed in to meet the demand for e-reader devices. Multitudes of hopeful scribes believed that e-books and accessible print-on-demand production would launch them into literary stardom on their own terms. Just imagine, pundits declared, no more gatekeepers! Old-fashioned publishing is dead! So fledgling authors hastily uploaded their WIP onto Kindle and sat back to watch the money roll in.

Sure, a small contingent of these authors succeeded beyond their fondest dreams (I trust you can name a few), but mostly they just flooded the market with millions of mediocre works. Today, only a tiny percentage of all self-published books will ever sell 100 copies. This should not have come as a surprise: when you drastically increase supply (of any product) without a corresponding surge in demand, this is the predictable outcome.

It didn’t take long for e-book sales to peak, then settle in to a new normal. Consumers flirted with e-readers, then largely returned to the old familiar print editions. Many readers, like myself, still prefer ink-stained fingers over fancy new gadgets.

Long story short, I don’t believe that AI will bring about the upheaval to publishing that many expect. A machine might construct a narrative, but the novelist must still apply her own distinctive style. It might compile and organize information, but the nonfiction author must nevertheless use his experience, knowledge, and point of view to cogently explain a particular subject or topic. As ever, all authors will need to bring a determined work ethic and wide platform to their creations to distinguish themselves from the masses, which few aspiring authors will even attempt to do, and which is why so few succeed.

If history is a guide, AI-written books will bring neither fame nor riches to more than a fortunate few. At best (as with e-books or POD), this sexy new tech will mostly give false confidence to legions of writers who expect to receive rewards without putting in the work, crushing their dreams and adding to the social media conspiracy theories about the utter unfairness of publishing.

The good news for authors is that the old-school ways still work. Read a few dozen books in your genre—for it is by reading that we learn how to write. Join a critique group and follow their advice. Find a mentor, and get humble. Build a library of writing reference books. Attend conferences to learn the writing craft and the publishing business. Meet the gatekeepers face-to-face, and make the most of it. Build your platform and make a name for yourself, then work like crazy to sell those books. Just like always.

So who’s afraid of AI? Not me.

Steven Hutson is an agent and the owner of WordWise Media Services. Source:

Despite a proliferation of AI tools, WordWise Media Services owner Steven Hutson says he doesn't believe that AI will bring about the upheaval to publishing that many expect.

10/05/2023

''The district reared Arthur. J. W. Burgess, one of England's foremost painters of ship pictures, and represented in our art galleries.''

Marine Artist Retains Interest In Lismore

Source: Northern Star (Lismore), Wednesday 17 February 1943.

A two years silence was broken when the English mail last week brought to Mr. N. C. Hewitt a letter from a schoolmate, Mr. Arthur J. W. Burgess, R.N., of 8 Primrose Gardens, London. The letter, though dated October 20, did not leave Hampstead until November 15.

The writer mentions the number of his letters inward and outward that have gone down to "Davey Jones' locker."

Mr. Burgess, who is Australia's leading marine artist and one of England's three greatest, was born at Burrowa. N.SW., but came as an infant in the early Eighties to Grafton, where his father, the late Mr J. O. Burgess, a former British naval surveyor, was district surveyor. Educated at Grafton Grammar School, Mr. Burgess, junr., completed his education at the New England Grammar School, Armidale, when his father was district surveyor at Lismore.

Both father and son painted much of the scenery where the Big Scrub existed in all its virgin beauty. Several paintings by Mr. J. O. Burgess, notably of the curiously-formed Nimbin Rocks, brought good prices when sold at Lawson and Little's rooms, Sydney, on his death at Vaucluse. Mr. J. O. Burgess was subsequently district surveyor of Glen Innes (at Lismore Mrs. Burgess was foremost in works of charity) and then at head office.

After Mr. Arthur Burgess had qualified as an architect, he turned his attention to a serious study of art and carried all before him as Dister Caster's most promising pupil. Julian Ashton forecast a great future for him.

Leaving Australia about 1902, for 11 years he studied marine painting at St. Ives. Cornwall, and in France. His work was exhibited at all the principal salons both in England and on the Continent end his fame was assured.

The Great War found him British Official War Artist, as he had been to the Admiralty. Formerly he had painted for Cammell Laird and Co. every warship they built for the Navy. The firm's calendars gave his reproductions of famous incidents such as the loss of the troopship "Birkenhead" (1859).

Arthur Burgess's most famous commissions were the "Scuttling of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow" when the British Government sent him by warship to paint the scene.

The Australian Governments have tardily acknowledged his genius by commissioning him to paint the arrival of the First Australian Navy in Sydney Harbour, in which picture the battleship Australia leads the way, and the sinking of the Emden by the Sydney off the Cocos Islands. Both pictures are hanging in Federal Parliament House, Canberra, beside Tom Roberts' painting of the opening of the first Federal Parliament by the Duke and Duchess of York. John Sands' almanac gave a reproduction of Mr. Burgess' masterpiece.

Readers of overseas magazines are familiar with Mr. Burgess' pictures of the present war, such as the sinking of the Athenia off the West Coast of England and "Dropping the Pilot."

From London to Lismore is a far cry, yet one now-famous artist whose works sell up to four figured always inquires about district people and the scenes of his youth. He cannot visualise Eastwood and Goonellabah (in whose once dense scrubs he shot pigeons and catbirds and trapped paddymelons) as suburbs of Lismore serviced by water, electricity and the motor bus. Inter alia, he asks "Can it be true that the kind friend of my youth, Old Charlie Slade, is still living?

I can remember him so well with his black beard, injured thumb and his piebald horse. I shall never forget the winter of 1896 when he and I had to break the ice as we launched one canoe on the edge of Tuckean. Please give him my kind regards." (Mr. Slade is still living on the Rous Road.)

Mr. Burgess said many friends have left London; either evacuated, blitzed out, or gone to work in the country. His home had some very near misses.

The lightly unrest during September and October, 1941, was the worst. He moved out for a year, but returned last October. Since then he had teen kept busy in London. In his spare time he grew vegetables in his back garden, which is mostly made up of broken bricks, glass and building material. He has now two grandchildren, his son-in-law being an officer in the Middle East.

*** I have been following this artist for a number of years and recently I was advised that this item has come up for auction.

I wonder what happened to the original watercolour donated to Lismore City Council and wondering if Jenny Dowell may have ever seen this painting? :)

Lismore has a glorious history with so many local artists, and I wonder if our Lismore Gallery has amassed a collection of local well known artists over the centuries?

Mr. A. J. W. Burgess is represented by some of the happiest pictures shown, the most notable, perhaps, being 'H.M.S. Exmouth Leading tin Home Fleet.' Mr. Burgess, who is again well represented at the Royal Academy this year,/s making naval subjects his special study, and his battleships are admirably executed. Source:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/164999366/16888462

***Eastwood Lismore is now underdevelopment by The McCloy Group. RESIDENTIAL LAND FOR SALE LISMORE
The residential land estate, Eastwood in Goonellabah, ready to offer 336 homesites across the 58 hectare parcel of land.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/5683696?searchTerm=watercolour%20Arthur%20J%20W%20Burgess

03/05/2023

This month at Serpentine Gallery we have 3 exciting Events on 12th May, 13th May and 24th May.

Friday 12th May 5:30pm Lisa Bristow Solo Exhibition: Breaking Free – A Decade in the Making Exhibition runs 12th – 22nd May. Opening Night Friday 5:30pm Entry is free, with live music and a fundraising Bar.

Lisa Bristow is an emerging multimedia artist based in Lismore. Her exhibition titled Breaking Free – A Decade in the Making, represents discovering herself as an artist and woman while recovering from the trauma of domestic violence. Art practice has helped Lisa regain strength and confidence by transforming broken elements into beautiful artworks.

Lisa uses a variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking and photography. Her artistic techniques and combinations create multilayered works that resonate emotion and depth of detail. Lisa’s work is extensive and eclectic.

Saturday 13th May 6 – 9pm Raimond De Weerdt Book Launch: Creatives of the Northern Rivers. Raimonds collection of portraits include artists, writers, poets and performers and is a snapshot of our amazing artist community captured in a beautifully presented picture book.

Raimond explains “In November 2021, after the COVID lockdowns ended, I took studio portraits of some creative friends of mine to use as profile pictures for their websites and professional purposes. The portraits I shared on social media had a good response and many more creatives came to my studio to have their portrait taken. Without accessible exhibition space after the floods, I decided to present this body of portraits in a book that all can enjoy.

This Event is one night only. Free entry, Book Signing and live Music. Refreshments available. The Book will be available for purchase on the night and Pre-ordered Books will be ready to collect.

Wednesday 24th May 6pm Malcolm Poole Book Launch: The six of Croll. Artist in residence 24th – 27th May for Book signing and discussion. Entry is free for the Opening night, with a serviced Bar with drinks and snacks available for purchase.

The Six of Croll is a fantasy adventure trilogy. This coming of age, philosophical story features beautiful Illustrations by the talented Author, Poet and Artist Malcolm Poole.

Since graduating from the National Art School in Sydney, Malcolm has been pursuing artwork that investigates both landscape and cityscape from an aerial perspective. Through this exploration, he has been developing his own artistic language. The Exhibition features the Art from his Fantasy Adventure Trilogy, The six of Croll.

Serpentine Community Gallery is located at 3/104 Conway Street Lismore. Contact Mobile: 0492964819 for more info.
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/SerpentineArts/
EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/1815766438817700/?ref=newsfeed

Serpentine Community Gallery is run by artists for artists and art lovers.

06/03/2023

Dear Readers, Businesses and Community Colleagues,

I have always loved publishing and started Lismore CBD Magazine in July 2021 to support businesses and the community. I have thoroughly enjoyed providing a monthly e-magazine that has showcased the lifestyle, whilst providing economic development for Lismore and the surrounding villages.

It is with the deepest of regrets, I am to advise that I have shelved Lismore CBD Magazine for now. Mainly due to a change in priorities and ongoing commitments that will require a dedication of time.

We have a number of projects/events that are still in our sights, and I will continue to profile news and features to our audience.

I would like to say a huge thankyou to everyone that been a part of the Lismore CBD Magazine it was an absolute delight to give back to such an awesome community.

27/01/2023

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25/01/2023

Out & about this afternoon with Tonia Mullen and such a delicious catch-up at the ambient Muddle Puddle in East Lismore. The coffee is superb and the only location where you can taste the magnificent Grace & Taylor Coffee Company blend. The service is attentive, friendly and today was a buzz with locals enjoying gourmet waffles, or as we did sample the cafe specials and a serving of orange citrus cake.

25/01/2023

Locals favourite
Lucky's Seafood at the Wyrallah Road
Shopping Centre.

24/01/2023

23/01/2023

Lismore Men & Community Shed are having a fund-raising garage sale, open day & sausage sizzle on the 25th February 2023.

We are seeking donations of saleable items (household, yard & shed items) from the public.

They can be dropped off at the shed Monday, Tuesday & Thursday 9.00am - 2.00pm. 15 Industry Drive East Lismore, near the Uni turnoff.

All profits go towards the ongoing running of the shed for its member's & the community. Malcolm - Secretary LM&CS

23/01/2023