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...Mary?s side of the family: Colton Anderson, 8, and his friend Arden Richelle, 9. At our local restaurant, the Odeon - three stars in the 1986 Britchky guide - Colton had a bowl of asparagus soup with snails, and instantly endeared himself to me by laughing at a very old joke. (Punch line: ?Look at that ?S? car go!?) Then their mother and Aunt Donna took them to their first Broadway show, ?Beauty and the Beast.? They loved it! The kids now have the CD, for immediate memorizing. We expect a return visit, when two other precocious kids...
...course, the risks of taking a headily Swiftian approach to social protest are obvious: what if the joke, which is after all pretty serious, flies right past those in the audience...
...Water is precious in this country, and knowing where to find it allowed Sturt's nomadic ancestors to flourish for tens of thousands of years in an environment so hostile it might have been some divine practical joke. While her painting is not a map in any conventional sense, Geoff Vivian, community development officer for the shire of Halls Creek, speculates as to its provenance. "I think scientists will one day find," he says, that there's "sophisticated hydrographic knowledge" embedded in Aboriginal myth. Maggie Long, another Jaru painter, has popped into the arts center to chat to manager...
...Cavers joke that Tasmania is almost hollow, a speleologist's paradise with as much wilderness to explore below ground as above. But while caves are plentiful, caves containing rock art are not. That's why the location of this cave is so closely guarded: since it was found in 2002 by a caver surveying the area for foresters, only a handful of people have seen inside it. So sensitive is the land council about tipping off sightseers and vandals to the cave's whereabouts that a condition of Time's visit is that not even the name of the closest...
...tizzy about it all, so I'm happy to leave the site to meet Devin, an American I met on the night train, for dinner. Over a beer we joke about the nuns, the souvenir shops selling Jesus holograms, the obvious lack of nightlife. But despite our levity, we decide to go back and watch the candlelight procession in front of the church, where we hear "Hail Mary" in French, English, Spanish, Italian and German, and see pilgrims marching with candles held high...