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Icon - Spring - Women on Farms Gathering, Beechworth 2001

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Icon - Spring - Women on Farms
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Beechworth Gathering
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Photographer Benjamin Healley

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"The spring is the medium by which loads are lightened, shared, dispersed evenly and borne smoothly. The spring stretches to link two ends – the Past and the Future. The spring signifies earlier times – a big old rusty spring speaks of an important job of support for the farming community, in transport, early machinery or even an old chair when the day’s work is done. It’s a simple piece of equipment with so much potential. It works well individually but what a load it can carry when you put a few together. The NEW (North East Women) pioneers used it to ‘spring’ into the new millennium." Ann Jarvis

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Kerry Wilson on Women on Farms Gathering

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Lyn Johnson on the Women on Farms Gathering

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Yvonne Jennings on the Women on Farms Gathering

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Icon - Spring - Women on Farms Gathering, Beechworth 2001

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Kerry Wilson on Women on Farms Gathering

Lyn Johnson on the Women on Farms Gathering

Yvonne Jennings on the Women on Farms Gathering

Discussion on the Women on Farms Gathering project

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