Ruth Cotton is well known to many in Newcastle for her huge body of local history work on the multicultural hub of Hamilton. Her Hidden Hamilton blog began as a way for her to find out more about the suburb she was moving to from northern NSW! Hundreds of stories and two books later, Ruth is still just as passionate about her adoptive home.
But Ruth has released a new book, a memoir called A Fragile Hold which details her 1997 diagnosis with multiple sclerosis and the changes to her life from that point. In 2020, just as the pandemic locked us in our homes with huge uncertainty, Ruth’s husband became unwell.
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5 Beaches, 29 Breaks
Newcastle's Flagstaff
Newcastle East Public School
Newcastle Obelisk
Central Methodist Mission
Resting in Pieces - The Christ Church Burial Ground Headstones
Herbert's Regent Theatre
The Leading Light or Beacon Tower
Victoria Theatre
Tony Robinson on the importance of our heritage
The Doctor with No Penicillin - Dr Peter Hendry
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