From the Maitland Mercury report:
Historian Ann Beaumont and colonial pioneer Edward Close live worlds apart, but when Ms Beaumont began to write the history of Morpeth Court House, she developed a fondness for the Morpeth founder that led her on a journey to Ipswich in the United Kingdom.
Full article by Belinda-Jane Davis available at Maitland Mercury, 22 Jan, 2010.
