THE MOON ROCK TREE ­ Autobiographical ­ Susan Steggall

THE MOON ROCK TREE

People often ask me, ‘why skiing?’ In a family whose origins are the Hunter Valley and for whom sport meant

Swimming tennis and Rugby? It all began when, in the early 1930s as a 15-16-year-old., my mother Phemie Gilmour Faith Wallis (née Mallaby), went on a Maitland Girls’ High School excursion to the Snowy Mountains. The rest, as they say, is history. I recently wrote a short story about her adventure and while some of the details have been changed in the interests of dramatic licence, its essence is true.

You can read the story by downloading the PDF here.

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