by Cimino | 23 Dec 2008 | Heritage vessels, Regatta 2009
For a while there, the vendors had inveigled their way in. Invariably, there is somebody looking to cash in on the event, but it was the strongly-held view of the generation that revived the Mahurangi Regatta that it should be a good old-fashioned...
by Cimino | 17 Jan 2010 | Regatta history
In regattas past, Scott Homestead would sit locked and mostly unused. The kitchen was pressed into service, preparing salads for the evening’s venison burgers, but otherwise visitors were unable to to see inside. Last regatta, Paul Deacon held an exhibition of his...
by Cimino | 19 Aug 2021 | Exhibit, J Barry Ferguson Fund
J Barry Ferguson Fund 2021 galleryWhere vendor and vendee combine practical philanthropy to fund actions to enjoy, protect, and restore the Mahurangi Click to view—perchance to bid Hardenbergia violaceaafter Sydney Parkinson Plate 72 Banks’ Florilegium, Alecto...
by Bob Moxon Browne | 31 Dec 2019 | Buffalo, History, Moxon Brownes
The Moxon Brownes Bob Moxon Browne Published 2019 This online edition is a work in progress; captions here are tailored, and additional images are provided, for the Mahurangi Magazine audience Chapter 9 Pages 69–84in printed edition Octavius’s brother, Gordon Davis...
by Cimino | 13 Nov 2019 | Warkworth, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
Sunday Sunset Boulevard town-hall matinee idyll In a former life, J Barry Ferguson, amongst many things, was: …the garden curator of Greenacre Park on 51st Street Manhattan, a private ‘vest-pocket’ park, open to everyone and owned by the Rockefeller Greenacre...
by Cimino | 6 Nov 2019 | Uncategorised
On 17 December, Mahurangi Action will be 45. This, indubitably, calls for a five-year plan to ensure all that reasonably can be, is achieved—for the Mahurangi, global climate and everything—before the organisation hits its half-centennialquinquagenary seems too...
by Cimino | 18 Oct 2019 | Heritage vessels, Part 3 Pioneer Pākehā
Buffalo off spar station misses festival but makes history Pictorially, at least, hmss Buffalo off Gordon Davis Browne’s spar station will make a fashionably late arrival to Auckland Heritage Festival 2019, which concludes at the end of Labour Weekend. Given that...
by Cimino | 9 Aug 2019 | Buffalo, Heritage vessels, Mahurangi history
Bay where no ships has been 60 years with no name It was almost certainly a good thing, that 60 years ago the name of the Auckland region’s first European settlement slid unnoticed into the next bay north. Had the bay been known by a descriptive name, such as Spar...
by Cimino | 21 Jul 2019 | Buffalo, Heritage vessels, Mahurangi history, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
hmss Buffalo arrives at Mr Browne’s establishment His putative youngest brother was Charles Dickens’ friend and illustrator, Hablot Knight Browne, aka Phiz. Putative, because Hablot was in fact the nephew of the founder of the Auckland region’s first European...
