Road to Poatina: Perspectives of the Great Lake Power Development Megaprojects by Robert E.S. Young | PB Memoir This catalogue says nothing of

This catalogue says nothing of the privations and aspirations of an invisible colonial woman who built in flesh and blood what the men around her built with water and stone

Fifty years later he sets out with his two sons to rediscover the remote cabin he helped build in the Tasmanian highlands

Central South and Central East of the state

For over 200 years

Road to Poatina: Perspectives of the Great Lake Power Development Megaprojects by Robert E.S. Young | PB Memoir This catalogue says nothing ofIn 1958, the Hydro Electric Commission began construction of a village named Poatina at the foot of the Great Western Tiers in central Tasmania. It soon became a vibrant community of around 3000 people. Yet within a few years it had all but disappeared again, as construction at Poatina wound down. The son of a local farmer, Rob Young reflects on what it was like growing up amidst the construction, remembers some of the local characters, researches