Setting up the Broadband network on Nimowa I met Father Anthony Young, the Australian priest on Nimowa Catholic Mission Station, in the Milne Bay Province in late December 2012. I quickly got to admire for his dedication and unselfish life to serve as the head priest to the people of Nimowa, Sudest Island, Yeina Island, Panatinance Island, Panawina Island, and other neighbouring islands. Father Young arrived in Nimowa in 1964 and remained there for most of his life. Father Young inherited a mission station with a school established soon after the Second World War. It was built on the land that a Catholic Philipino, Florentino Paulisbo had bought before the war to make a coconut plantation. Florentino married a local woman at Yule Island. They had one son, Joseph, from that marriage and an adopted son, Leo. Joseph lived at Panapompom where he ran a plantation and trade store. Leo offered land on Nimowa to the Catholic missionaries. After th...
Chronicles the stories of education, books, writing, and reading in the life of Steven Edmund Winduo, PNG writer extraordinaire, literacy advocate, social literary activist, literary scholar, & teacher. Fern Ridge is a translation of Safla Rama, where home is for SEW.