Backward Glance: Preserving our past: writers and storytellers - Part Two
(WorldNews Asia)

Wednesday 20 September 2017 Today we continue to shine the spotlight on some of the Sunshine Coast`s many authors and environmentalists acknowledged for their dedication to preserving the region`s natural environs and rich history. Landsborough`s Stan Tutt, a friend of many on the Sunshine Coast, contributed with heritage and environmental writing which endeared him to this region. Born in Murgon in 1914, Stan lived his childhood in the North Coast region where his father was a timber cutter and later a banana grower and poultry farmer. Early in Stan`s life, the family lived with dirt floors and no running water or electricity, as did many early families. Stan`s mother was a school teacher...