{"id":1551,"date":"2023-04-15T04:18:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T04:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2023-04-15T04:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T04:28:08","slug":"repaying-the-favour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/2023\/04\/repaying-the-favour\/","title":{"rendered":"Repaying the favour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I wrote about the larger national and state-based libraries and museums which do the heavy lifting in terms of preserving our culture and history <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/2023\/02\/playing-the-long-game\/\">for the long term<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The burden may be eased a little when our regional equivalents are able to repay the effort with a unique contribution to the historical record. So it was recently in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation&#8217;s TV series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/education\/digibooks\/back-in-time-for-the-corner-shop\/102057772\"><em>Back in time for the corner shop &#8211; the 1970s.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 1970s episode discussed the changes in food habits and cooking, and a new trend towards healthy eating defined as vegetarianism. By way of example, the episode quickly showed the front page of the Coffs Harbour&#8217;s\u00a0 Bananacoast Opinion from 12 February 1975:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1552\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1552\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1552 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BO-12Feb1975-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BO-12Feb1975-p1.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BO-12Feb1975-p1-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LEARN VEGETARIAN COOKING (1975, February 12). The Bananacoast Opinion (Coffs Harbour, NSW : 1973 &#8211; 1978), p. 1. <a href=\"http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article254797367\">http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article254797367<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1553 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BO-12Feb1975-p1-part.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BO-12Feb1975-p1-part.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BO-12Feb1975-p1-part-100x300.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 85vw, 210px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our history started yesterday. We don&#8217;t necessarily have to wait very long to reuse it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I wrote about the larger national and state-based libraries and museums which do the heavy lifting in terms of preserving our culture and history for the long term. The burden may be eased a little when our regional equivalents are able to repay the effort with a unique contribution to the historical record. So &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/2023\/04\/repaying-the-favour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Repaying the favour&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}