'Meet the ladies of the lighthouse who led an isolated life the unionist shot in an affray the stage actor whose career ended too soon the men who sighted the fabled Mahogany Ship the two survivors of a shipwreck that everyone wanted to see married, but it wasn’t to be the inventor of the Ute and what inspired his unusual design and the lady who rests in a ‘donated’ isolated beach grave. They may have lived in the same suburbs, streets, and even the same houses as exist now, or unexpectantly came to rest between Geelong and Port Fairy. 'Grave Tales: Great Ocean Road Country – Geelong to Port Fairy visits established cemeteries and burial places off-the-beaten-track to feature people who willingly or unwillingly were participants in events that made local and national headlines. Grave Tales reveals more than the headstone can ever convey by tracing the tumultuous journeys that lead to these final resting places. 'In cemeteries throughout Australia, gravestones hint at our history – tales of early settlement, unsolved murders, love lost, mystery, tragedy, health epidemics, scandal and sacrifice. Greenslopes: Atlas Productions, 2017 19651117 2017 single work non-fiction biography Abstract … And 11 more stories in this volume.2 y Grave Tales: Great Ocean Road Country Helen Goltz, Murder by the Kenniff brothers: the most horrible murders in Qld police history – a constable and a property manager slaughtered by outlaws.

The Germans: the war in Europe had repercussions for the Scenic Rim’s large population of German immigrants and especially one German pastor.Romeo Lahey’s flagpole: the man who gave us the great Scenic Rim National Park had another passion, a flagpole challenge to win.Boy meets bushranger – Christian Schmidt: the boy who inadvertently told the ‘Wild Scotchman’ bushranger when to rob the mail coach.Duty done: a medal no mother wanted to receive – a silver badge for sending multiple sons to war.The Fassifern Giantess – Augusta Rewald: in the days when ‘freak shows’ were entertainment, a Boonah resident was exhibited nationwide.The Stinson crash: how bushman Bernard O’Reilly found a missing aircraft with seven people on board when no-one else could.Grave Tales reveals more than the headstone can ever convey by tracing the tumultuous journeys that lead to these final resting places. These stories hint at our history – tales of heroism, unsolved murders, love lost, mystery, tragedy, settlement, health epidemics, scandal and sacrifice. They may have lived in the same suburbs, streets, and even the same houses as exist now, or finished their days in this beautiful area.

Grave Tales: Scenic Rim & surrounds, Qld visits the cemeteries in Queensland’s Scenic Rim to tell of the everyday people who – willingly or unwillingly – were participants in events that made local and national headlines.

Grave Tales by Helen Goltz