AustLit

'Once Upon A Hume Volume Five concludes our journey down the 'Great South Road', as the Hume Highway was once known. We follow the original route, moving from personality to personality, catching up with some of the intriguing folk who lived near, or preyed upon, or prospered there, from the earliest days. Few of these folk or features are well-known. All have a story to share.The feuding Stuckey brothers of South Gundagai. Brave Mary Andrews and 'the Siege of Kimo 'Mysterious 'Sylvia' of Sylvia's Gap. A 'Little Sydney Harbour Bridge'. Philandering James Hillas, shot dead at Yabtree Station. Freight hijackers on the Hume Highway. Tarcutta's haunted milking machine. The strange Splatt family of Woomargama. Fiendish James Feeney and the saintly Father Therry. A suicide-note scratched on a billycan. The curious testament of Peter Stuckey Mitchell... and many other persons and places.' (Publication summary)