Markwood Primary School

13 Feb

The Markwood Primary School was busy with kids for 138 years. "The school was closed in March 2007 when the last student left." This school is on the Snow Road, which connects the Hume Highway to the Great Alpine Road, and then on to Bright, Porepunkah etc, or Beechworth if you turn the other way. Anyway, I've driven past it for 45 years, but for the first time last week I stopped. There are sadder things in life than an abandoned primary school, there are. But, still, walking around, it brought on a certain, lost, feeling. I saw some drawings. I saw a rubber ball.

I posted this on social media and one response was: Markwood girls. Tough netballers.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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