Philobiblon

Received from my grandmother is an article from Australian Geographic (October 2007) containing an article about Australia’s “little Cornwall, the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia”. It reports that just before Christmas in 1859, James Boor, a shepherd, was at work when he saw green-tinged dirt, which as a Cornishman he knew was a sign of copper. By 1876 the biggest mine in the area had paid £1m (more than £100m today) in dividends.

The story goes that James was my grandmother’s great, great, great grandfather on her father’s side.

Further evidence: “My mother made great pasties.”