art on a water tower...

Art on a water tower, Heywood sw Victoria...
And what a story behind the art...
Some 102 years since the 5 Lovett brothers asked for a forbidden beer.
Once scorned, for being black, these Lake Condah Mission, WWI fighting men of Budj Bim now soar high. https://t.co/5qmYu5sRfW

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) June 5, 2021

The Heywood water tower story (in my last tweet) offers only a glimpse into the Lake Condah Mission.
There is far more to the background story of the Lovett brothers.
Intriguing, shocking, humbling reading...
The lost souls of Condah who joined the Anzacs https://t.co/5V2k34IvoE

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) June 5, 2021

Condah – like many little rural places around Australia – barely exists now beyond a pub and a public hall, a lonely cemetery and a scattering of dwellings and farmsteads. In 1915 there was a general store, a bank, post office, three functioning churches – Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian – a state school, a cheese and butter factory and the old Green Hills Hotel. 

Down the track a few kilometres and encircled by forest was another village entirely: the Lake Condah Aboriginal Mission. Here, the lava flow from nearby Mt Eccles – Budj Bim, or Little Head to the original inhabitants – and the wetlands within and around the stones, had supported one of Australia's most remarkable Indigenous peoples for thousands of years.