Not the end of the story, but appropriately this is a very brief post #6, written on 17 November 2023, just 6 weeks from the formal end of the SLV Fellowship.
The Six Peaks Speak: Unsettling Legacies in Southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country book manuscript, for which Clive Willman is now confirmed as second author, is now complete (8 Chapters, 96,000 words, plus 10,000 words of footnotes) and under consideration by a prospective publisher. Hopefully the final post in this series during late December after I return on 10 December from bike riding with four fellow Erratics in New Zealand / Aotearoa might have some good news about a book contract to share.
A Six Peaks Speak ‘show and tell’ is being planned at SMB in downtown Ballarat to coincide with International Mountain Day (2-4pm December 11). Organised through Federation University, it’s my opportunity to share the findings of the research and book writing project in the community with a wide range of interested stakeholders including people and organisations who have generously advised and provided assistance along the way.
I’m hopeful that beyond the life of my Six Peaks Speak project, and thinking globally and acting locally, Mountain Day in Australia in 2024 might be bigger and better. Watch this space ….
Barry Golding 