Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves in Two Generations

This was another very successful launch. It was held on the first day of the Forbes Heritage week. Copies of both books were donated to the Forbes Library, Family History Group and the Forbes Advocate which featured an article, which included the book cover and review by Peter Austin of the first book, in the Tuesday’s edition before the Launch.

There is still a lot of interest amongst the local community in my father J.J.Leahy and my brother Pat and his 15 children who lived on “Burratoo” adjacent to our father’s “Manna Park” property. The local barber shop has an old sale poster shown below on the wall for another of my father’s properties near Forbes.