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October 5, 2024

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Sadly, this is Sharon’s final video for Echonetdaily for the time being. Thank you Sharon for documenting the life of our community so brilliantly over the past four years.

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  1. Hi I enjoyed this story and would love to hear more stories of northern rivers area. I was born in byron Bay and family had meatworks in byron Bay. I am writing a fictional novel of our family history and would love to know where I can go to access news of past festivals from 1960’s in you archives??? thanks m.sparks

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