Time and Tide: Spencer Heritage Adventure Day. Adventure #03

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Time and Tide: History Adventure Day - 4 events.

Adventure 03  Tour + Explore + Thai + Stories

Spencer on the Hawkesbury River

Time and Tide: Spencer Heritage Adventure Day

Enter into an enthralling odyssey in the village and waterways of Spencer with storytelling, historical yarns, river cruise and feasting.  Plus  antique road show, craft demos, live music with with sea shanties and heritage boats.

<h1>Tours - Village Yarns </h1><p>Jo Henwood storyteller extraordinaire takes you on a mystery tour of Spencer village with yarns - improbable, fabulous and surprisingly true! Hear about the forgotten histories of the floating store boats; rum and resistance; midwives and secret babies. Hear the latest at the local pub The Dunkirk Hotel under a Mangrove tree and local anecdotes from the Hub of the Universe. Enjoy stories from up the creek as you navigate through Spencer's tales of enterprise and feats of daring-do along the last frontier and hidden waterways of the Hawkesbury River.</p>

<h1>Explore: Self Guided</h1><p>Enjoy live performances; 'antique road show'; exhibition, and historical encounters on the waterfront and locations around the village. </p><p>Bring your mystery object for valuation at Spencer's 'antique road show' by Hannah Clayton Atkin of Swan Deverell auctioneers. </p><p>Explore history at the Hawkesbury Duck museum - hear about where the dead were buried; what was on the colonial plate, and tales tall and true from another time. </p><p>Live music on the waterfront with sea shanties and wooden boat spectacular.</p>

<h1>Feasting</h1><p>From the Spencer Thai  - chef's specially selected menu lunch in the Thai Garden.</p><p>Created from local and seasonal produce. </p>

<h1>Stories: Murder and Mayhem </h1><p>Reimagining the murder and mayhem of Spencer in the 1800s when ‘Fernleigh’ was the site of illegal distilleries and the infamous Green Man Inn. Hear about the female apparition vanishing through a doorway at the inn and the ghostly ships seen at sunset with blood red sails at the mouth of Marlow’s Creek and why the Inn of the Damned was haunted. Relax on the veranda of the White House and gaze out across the river while our storyteller Max Burns-McRuvie evokes the atmosphere of this busy trading hub with its mix of free settlers, ticket-of-leave men, timber workers, ash burners and fishermen fuelled by ‘Hawkesbury Juice’ and insubordination.</p>

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