John Kinsella is an award winning poet, a successful novelist and playwrite. He uses his "well known" status (he objects to the use of the word fame) to work proactively (by setting a good example) to better the world. I recently interviewed him for an article in my college's newspaper (the Collegian at Kenyon College in Ohio--where he just accepted the Richard L Thomas Chair of Creative writing for one semester) and he told me he is donating the royalties from this book to land rights councils which are trying to have ancestral land returned to the Indigenous people of Australia and work to grant the Indigenous people greater autonomy over their own lives. So buy a book (i haven't read it, but even if i had you'd have to judge for yourself)collaborated on by at least one amazing person (i have not met Dorthy Hewett), support poetry and a hope for a better world.

Book Information: Printed by Friesen & Sons, Ltd. Alberta, Canada 1974. This is an oversized book of 549 pages prepared by the Claresholm History Book Club. The club was organized with idea of publishing history (rural and urban) of Claresholm, Alberta, Canada. It covers early history of the area, local groups, cemeteries, churches, schools and family histories. The book has hundreds of family histories and many many pictures. Best of all the histories are indexed!
A limited number of these local history books were published and so are difficult to find. An excellent value!