Tag: Minnie Dean
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Prize draw
Remember the prize draw tomorrow 18 August for a copy of The Trials of Minnie Dean: A verse biography. Closing at midnight. See karendzelas.com – click on page ‘Prize Draw’. For radio broadcasts and podcast episodes, see plainsfm.org.nz/prog/falling
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Tom Long hangman
if I drink don’t blame me it’s me occupation they call me hangman with good cause but not without a dash of condemnation there’s none will do it save for me & I console meself in spirit tis one thing to kill a man in battle still another kill his brother in cold blood…
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12 August 1895
127 years ago today, Minnie Dean was executed by hanging at the Invercargill Prison, the only woman ever hanged in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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The Laurels
This is the cottage outside Winton that Charles Dean built after their house was burned down by an angry creditor – “this is the house that Charles built … these are the debts that Charles accrued , that lived in the house that Charles built …”
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Good news
The following Access Radio stations advise that they will also be playing the FALLING series: Manawatū People’s Radio, Palmerston North Arrow FM 92.7, Masterton, Wairarapa Coast Access Radio, Waikanae (Kapiti/Horowhenua) Fresh FM Nelson/Marlborough Plains FM, Christchurch Otago Access Radio, Dunedin Radio Southland, Invercargill Check for the programme schedule with the access radio in your area.
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First Post
Welcome to the first post on the FALLING blog! Everything is ready to go on Thursday 18 August. The Podcast Episodes will be released through Plains FM website, Spotify and iTunes at 6am on Thursday 18 August, and the scheduled morning and evening Radio Episodes will also commence. See the Plains FM programming schedules at…