Taemas
Annotated map of Taemas This blog post will be a bit waffly because I am fast running out of time to think clearly and make sensible well considered posts. Please forgive me. Recently, for another University of Tasmania course called Place, Image, Object we had to make an annotated map of a place that was significant to us or our family history, bringing together subjective and objective elements. What an agonizing but fruitful exercise it was. I chose to do a map showing some of my ancestor's land near Yass and Canberra where I grew up. My ancestor was Samuel Taylor. Here is my reflection on the task. I created several annotated maps in the process of creating the final annotated map for my ancestor, Samuel Taylor. At first I wanted to show how place names can be duplicated in different areas. For example. George Willmore originally called Arana Hills, the suburb where I work in Queensland, after Camden Park – a place familia...