Renowned Australian actor Peter Phelps brought a touch of Hollywood to the opening of the History Illuminated festival at Toronto Library on Saturday morning.
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The AFI and Logie award winner is one of our country’s best-known actors, with a string of film, television and theatre credits. He also spent time in Hollywood, scoring roles in Baywatch and Point Break among others – a period of his career he highlighted in wry fashion in 1994 in his inaugural book, Sex without Madonna: True confessions of a hired gun in Tinseltown.
Peter has put pen to paper again to exercise his writing skills on a biographical novel called The Bulldog Track, the story of his grandfather Tom’s incredible wartime experience in New Guinea.
Peter was the first presenter for this year’s History Illuminated festival and gave a thoroughly entertaining and intriguing account of his grandfather’s story and the process of writing it.
He also praised History Illuminated and spoke of how pleased he had been to be offered the opportunity to launch the festival.
The nine-day festival is presented by Lake Mac Libraries in partnership with Hunter Writers Centre with the aim of connecting history writers, researchers, readers and the community.
History Illuminated continues until Sunday, September 9, with presentations still to come by a range of biographers, novelists and historians.
Entry to most sessions is by gold-coin donation, which is excellent value. For the full program, visit library.lakemac.com.au/history-illuminated.
LAKE Macquarie’s first fenced dog park at Speers Point has proven popular with dog owners and their pets, and council is now reviewing the need for similar facilities across the city.
There are more than 80,000 dogs in Lake Macquarie, and the number continues to grow, so council has developed a draft policy on how to best provide space for dog exercise and socialisation.
The Dogs in Public Open Space Procedure is now on public exhibition at shape.lakemac.nsw.gov.au until Monday 24 September.
If you use dog exercise spaces in our city, I encourage you to jump online and complete the short survey, which will help us better understand the priorities of dog owners and others in our community.
