The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 92 Over The Gully

12/9/1962

The house my dad built was on the edge of town – it literally backed on to farmland in 1962. He bought a section in Hamilton near Hillcrest Normal School and by the time I was five it was finished and we had moved in. There was a big gully down the back of our land and then a fence that separated us from a wonderworld.

As I grew, I ventured furt…