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Over many years, during quiet moments of reflection, characters from Noosa's past often drifted across a blank canvas in my mind. I gathered these images lovingly and threaded their stories on the cord of my memory to keep for all time. Their unique stories and personalities will now live on. I have made every attempt to contact the characters in this book to confirm the accuracy of detail and to gather their reflections of the 'good old days'. Most people were delighted at the thought of being made immortal; however, a handful simply could not be located. My personal recollections are part autobiographical and part historical reflections of the way Noosa used to be. Let me take you on a journey into Noosa's resplendent past, among its artists, poets, eccentrics, and other sane people.

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from simple life to sophistication... Artist and author Emma Freeman paints a vivid word picture of a sleepy coastal village awakening during the 1950s and '60s. Her biographical and historical themes entwine, linking characters whose creative energies flourished in a dusty, unsealed Hastings Street dotted with holiday houses and tent homes. With insight and humour, Emma recollects the innocence, the simplicity of life in the unspoiled natural surroundings. Her colourful palette highlights figures in the landscape of Noosa's past, as they laid the foundation of the cosmopolitan street we know today. ""A daunting but satisfying task... The first edition of Emma Freeman's 'Hastings Street' provided a charming glimpse into the early days of this most well-known of Noosa's streets, introducing us to its characters and happenings. The second edition applies additional layers to these stories blending and entertaining and engaging read with a valuable historical record."" Jane Harding, Heritage Librarian, Noosa Library Service ""Enlightening and stimulating... Hastings Street Stories from Noosa's Past is a sincere and factual account of the lives involved in a special area of southeast Queensland. Like the best books based on oral history, Freeman's work recognizes the colourful perspective of ordinary people."" Dr Dave Hugo, Senior Researcher, National Native Title Tribunal ""Great re-enactment! Thank you Emma, for your valuable addition to Noosa's recorded local history."" Dr Michael Gloucester OAM, Past President, Noosa Parks Association

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Author background=================Peter Freeman lives on Salt Spring Island on the west coast of Canada. He writes nonfiction and fiction novels, screen and stage plays, short stories, magazine articles, and poetry.Peter grew up in what was once the sleepy fishing village of Noosa Heads on the Sunshine Coast, just south of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. He started his career as a cadet surveyor and then as a journeyman fitter and turner before focusing on computer science at the University of Tasmania.While in Hobart, Peter joined the local rock climbing club, where he later met Max Dorfligger, a carpenter, shipwright, and famous Swiss mountaineer. Peter sailed across the Tasman Sea with Max in the thirty-two-foot sloop, Sunshine, that Max had built to New Zealand, where Peter then spent the next few years driving trains and building his sailboat, Laiviņa.Eventually, Peter sailed from New Zealand to Australia and then to Canada, where he incorporated an Information Technology company that produced and sold scientific and business software to universities, governments, and the private sector. In 1984, Peter departed Victoria, British Columbia, to sail his thirty-two-foot sloop, Laiviņa, on a solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe, breaking the existing world record with a time of 236 days. His book, Cape Horn Birthday, is an account of this journey.Peter is a masters athlete who has represented Canada internationally in world championships, competing in Italy, South Africa, Australia, the USA, and Canada, and has won gold, silver, and bronze medals in these competitions in the 100, 200, 400, and 800 metre events. In 2003, at 51, Peter was ranked 11th in the world and 1st in Canada in the 400-metre event for his time in Puerto Rico of 55.10 seconds.Peter has twice ridden his bicycle across Canada and, at the age of 61, bicycled the 15,400 kilometres around the perimeter of Australia, unsupported, in 79 days, averaging 200 kilometres a day.His colourful history has given him an endless vault of story ideas to write about, as his publishing experience illustrates: Awards====== - Second Prize - 2025 Mensa Canada Literary Contest - ""The Invasion"" - Winner - 2019 University of Saskatchewan, The Fieldstone Review's literary prize - ""Hidden Message"" - Best Short Story (Shortlist): ""In the Waiting Room"" - Best of 2018 Adelaide Literary Award - Best Poem (Finalist): ""Last Beating"" - Best of 2018 Adelaide Literary AwardPublish-Ready============= - Children's stories: ◦ How the Rainbow Got its Colours - 4,070 words - Typeset ◦ Mila-Kate and the Blue Butterfly - 3,842 words - Typeset - Children's series - Summer Sleuths ◦ #1 The Case of the Ghostly Granny - 10,721 words - TypesetProjects Underway================= - Nonfiction ◦ Circumclyclution - 79 days, 15,400 km unsupported bicycling around Australia. - 843 pages; 338,441 words - Poetry ◦ Outgrowth: Poetic Offshoots of Exuberance - (90% complete) - First Draft - Children's series - Summer Sleuths ◦ #2 The Case of the Missing Medallion ◦ #3 The Case of the Meandering Mare ◦ #4 The Case of the Baffling Bones - Fiction ◦ Yearning - (18,000 of 90,000 words) - First Draft ◦ Soul Mates - (20,000 of 90,000 words) - First Draft ◦ Infinity Farm - (18,000 of 90,000 words) - First Draft

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