Heather Eldridge

Heather Eldridge was born in Port Lincoln and completed Matriculation at Minlaton High School in 1970 before being employed primarily in tertiary libraries in Adelaide and Melbourne. Two small children and a desire to be self employed brought a career change following graduation from RMIT as an Interior Decorator. This led to regular tutoring in renovation, restoration and decorative painting techniques. Heather is a member of the SA Writers' Centre, the Oral History Association of Australia, and resides with her partner in Minlaton where she is a Civil Marriage Celebrant.

 

Latest book: a MOSAIC of memory chips... pieces of south australian rural life in the 20th century
MOSAIC is a rural/social history record; the pieces all having the theme of 'finished business'. It was compiled from 28 Oral History interviews. Long-term residents of the Minlaton area reminisced about specific changes during their lifetimes; with particular reference to agriculture, commercial ventures, local government, education, health and recreation. In 2011, SA's 175th anniversary, 'MOSAIC' offers an insight into a forgone rural way of life. It is representative of the strong social interaction and level of community involvement that prevailed across regional SA last Century. It also records local casualties of the ubiquitous 'rural decline' that subsequently occurred.

 

Genres:

• Australiana
• biographical articles
• historical
• nonfiction

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