Gunning Public School visited Pye Cottage Museum in 2019. Forty students from years 3 and 4 kept their guides busy as they studied the displays and asked questions about family life in a four-roomed, slab-walled house. Before 1867, there were only two rooms - a kitchen/dining room and a bedroom. When the children entered these first rooms, they tried to imagine how the "folk" who lived in this tiny house kept warm and clean, how they cooked their food and how they relaxed at the end of the day. A PYE RETURNS TO PYE COTTAGE Nicholas Pye and Harrison Picker at Pye Cottage Museum Photo G Dickson Nicholas Pye and Harrison Picker started by examining the automobile advertisements in the Gunning Gazette. Perhaps when Pyes lived in the cottage at Dalton from the mid 1920s through to the 1940s, the adults also read this local paper, mended the clothes or played popular songs or hymns on a portable organ? Pye Cottage showing the original two rooms. Photo RA Spiller With the ...
Upper Lachlan Shire, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales