Antipodes

One of these days, my native town of Grafton in Australia will have a new bridge over the Clarence River. The northern area, which includes ...

Apparently my father "Bill" Skyvington , as a teenager in Grafton, had made friends with a well-known family, named Clunies-Ro...

On chilly winter evenings, my dog Fitzroy loves to sit down in front of the computer (not surprisingly, he’s a Macintosh addict) and brows...

As a boy on the rural outskirts of South Grafton, I lived just a stone’s throw away from a pristine paradise: Susan Island, a luxuriant rain...

In the mid-1950s, when I was a teenager in Grafton and an active member of the Anglican community attached to Christ Church Cathedral, I wo...

In the middle of the 1950s, the Anglican cathedral of Grafton (my birthplace in Australia) was a focal point in my young existence. A ...

In my childhood recollections, candied ginger is a Proustian madeleine . [If you don't know what I mean, look up the last pair of words...

As a boy in Grafton, I grew up in the shade of the celebrated Ford motor company, founded in Detroit (Michigan) in 1903 by the legendary ind...

As a child in South Grafton, I was expected to admire a gushy poem penned by a young American Catholic fellow named Joyce Kilmer , killed in...

As a boy, I used to ride my bike across the two-tiered bridge (road/rail traffic) over the Clarence River between South Grafton and Grafton....

The FAI [ Fédération Aéronautique Internationale ], whose head office is in Switzerland, governs world records in all kinds of air sports a...