Aiming High: The Story of Byron Brown and his Granddaughter Mary-Annette
Author(s): Di Buchan
Byron Brown – entrepreneur, businessman, community leader, benefactor, broadcaster, environmentalist, philosopher, poet and storyteller, and an internationally recognised expert on the works of Shakespeare and Dickens.
Mary-Annette – artist, actor, event organiser, broadcaster and the Queen of Wool for the New Zealand Wool Board.
This is their story.
Byron Brown – entrepreneur, businessman, community leader, benefactor, broadcaster, environmentalist, philosopher, poet and storyteller, and an internationally recognised expert on the works of Shakespeare and Dickens.
Mary-Annette – artist, actor, event organiser, broadcaster and the Queen of Wool for the New Zealand Wool Board.
This is their story.
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AUTHOR BIO:
After a career in social and environmental research, Di Buchan retired to Ōtaki and became a historian.
She joined the board of the Ōtaki Museum and for a year or so wrote regular columns on the history of Ōtaki for the local newspapers. After two years of research, she published a history of the Ōtaki Children’s Health Camp – Sun, Sea & Sustenance in 2017 and set up a Charitable Trust to restore the nationally important rotunda building at the camp which once served as the children’s dormitory. In 2019 she produced Triumphs, Tribulations & Tragedies: The Low family of saddlers in Otago and Southland, a history of her maternal ancestors. Aiming High is her third book and like the previous works, is very much a social history of a particular time in Aotearoa.
She is a firm believer in the importance of recording the stories of the past to help us understand the world we have inherited, to appreciate the contributions made by past generations and to understand that for every generation there are hard times and sacrifices.
History also shows us that in every generation there are individuals who rise above the everyday and leave legacies that, in reading about them, enrich our lives.
AUTHOR BIO:
After a career in social and environmental research, Di Buchan retired to Ōtaki and became a historian.
She joined the board of the Ōtaki Museum and for a year or so wrote regular columns on the history of Ōtaki for the local newspapers. After two years of research, she published a history of the Ōtaki Children’s Health Camp – Sun, Sea & Sustenance in 2017 and set up a Charitable Trust to restore the nationally important rotunda building at the camp which once served as the children’s dormitory. In 2019 she produced Triumphs, Tribulations & Tragedies: The Low family of saddlers in Otago and Southland, a history of her maternal ancestors. Aiming High is her third book and like the previous works, is very much a social history of a particular time in Aotearoa.
She is a firm believer in the importance of recording the stories of the past to help us understand the world we have inherited, to appreciate the contributions made by past generations and to understand that for every generation there are hard times and sacrifices.
History also shows us that in every generation there are individuals who rise above the everyday and leave legacies that, in reading about them, enrich our lives.
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- : Mary Egan Publishing
- : Mary Egan Publishing
- : books
Special Fields
- : Di Buchan
- : Paperback
- : 1st
- : b&w