Time and Tide: Spencer Heritage Adventure Day: Adventure #04

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Time and Tide: History Adventure Day - 4 events.

Adventure 04: Stories + Explore + Platter+ Cruise

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>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>

<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 on the wharf</h1><p>From the Deli - fresh platters and grazing table on one of Spencer's wharves with magnificent views towards triangle island and the Hawkesbury River. </p>

<p>Join us aboard small party cruisers with our historian guides on a trip into the past. Hear about the 1804 attack by indigenous leader Branch Jack and his gang at Mangrove Flat. Meander to 'Gentlemans Halt' (reputed site of Governor Philip's overnight stay in 1789) and past the site of the Green Man Inn built in 1840 and the small river only access community of Marlow.  Running alongside triangle Island we visit Ma Hanna's restored boatshed (the last boatshed accomodation on the river) and the site of Curly Kneebones shipyard yard where he built commissioned boats for locals on the river including Harpoo, Opoo, Shampoo and his last trawler Mermaid - when the river was the highway.  </p>

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