An Australian city with strong claims the "birthplace" of Mary Poppins has successfully more than 2,000 umbrella-waving fans in an attempt on the Guinness world records for the largest roof mosaic and the largest umbrella dance attracted.
Bowral in the Southern Highlands of new South Wales established recently a giant umbrella mosaic of the famous nanny - big enough to seen will say from the all - events from 100 years ago, that organizers celebrate the fictional character in the imagination of their creator residing traverse p.l.
The world record attempt on Saturday 7 May 2011 in the Bradman oval organized by the Southern Highlands Youth Arts Council was also the opportunity to start a search documents in the history of children's literature for the "forgotten" first Mary of Poppins missing history might be one of the most valuable.
Father-daughter team, Paul and Melissa McShane, led a campaign for about 7 years, Bowral recognise, modify Travers have the special connection to the creation of the Mary Poppins character and their creator, Helen Lyndon Goff, later, her name in Pamela Lyndon (PL).
Melissa McShane proposed a commemorative coin of Mary Poppins statue in the city as part of a youth civic design competition first, when she was 12 years old, ironically in the same age as when Lyndon Goff's imagination created the no-nonsense Nanny in the early 1900s.
Since then, support for Mary Poppins birthplace campaign swelled to the point that 2115 people asked for the world out record attempt which was more than double so what was expected and should smash the existing Guinness world record of 1026 set in Serbia in 2009, once by the London organization verified.
The city has a fundraising campaign for a life-size bronze statue of Mary Poppins in a public park just a block be placed from the House, which the author lived between 1907-1917. The statue of Bowral is based on a design originally even 1966 was proposed by the author for Central Park in New York. This project does not continue, so is the Bowral now the statue construction, the New York promised, but never.
Now make an International League of the literary detectives to solve the McShanes what they have called, "The neglected case of the nanny"
"PL Travers eingeh??llt the origin of themselves and Mary Poppins secret," explains Paul McShane.
"Even the most Travers close friends unaware of the author in Australia born and lived there until the age of 24, before leaving to the United Kingdom."
"Travers was a question in the course of their long life persistently asked: where Mary Poppins come from?" It was ambiguous or simply always evasive, mysterious in their responses. Their has answer when pressed, even for most of her friends, was that Mary Poppins "me" and complete came her during a period of convalescence in pounds cottage Suffolk during 1934. "In fact, she often made references to Mary Poppins, discover rather than vice versa."
"Geschälte Valerie Lawson 1999 groundbreaking biography"She came out of the sky"removed many layers of mystery surrounding the author and her boss character, and for the first time that underlined the importance of the decade her family in Bowral lived, when Lyndon was a child and teenager in the creation of the Mary Poppins" he said.
"Lawson's biography also showed that the first Mary Poppins history actually was published by Travers as free article in 1926 by the newspaper Sun Christchurch in New Zealand, some eight years before the first book and when Travers in general due to the creation of the Mary Poppins."
"Melissa and I interviewed Valerie Lawson in 2004 and she encouraged the primary sources, especially the author's research collection of personal papers in the State Library."
"Based on Lawson's book and our own research and analysis, Melissa and I have decided, that Bowral's location in the Travers most likely created the character of Mary Poppins, while was telling bedtime stories to her sisters."
But the compelling reason is now also the subject of a global search for the first "forgotten" Mary of Poppins history and a reward of bounty of quest sponsor BibliOZ the book search wizard
In an interview in 1979 with Jonathan Cott a trusted editor a Travers co-founded the author map, the existence of showed a still earlier Mary Poppins history was written when she was a teenager.
The mission is to find the "forgotten" or neglected history now and the McShanes are "Crowdsourcing" quest of open searches help by historians, reader, to do researchers and the general public, as the search challenge is only complete on their own time and resources.
The McShanes have written an e-book "The case of the neglected nanny", in favour of Bowral's claims and compiled the famous notes to their League of the literary detectives.
"It would be the missing link - for Bowral, or the Magna Carta - of our case known lived as the birthplace of Mary Poppins as her family here during the author's teenage years," McShane said.
"In addition, is in its own right, that first Mary Poppins history probably the most valuable missing document in children's literature."
"Anyone can subscribe to join that quest given to help solve Travers lived"The fall of the neglected nanny"in Australia, Europe and America and traveled and was similar to who knows where the evidence could be found?"
BibliOZ the book search wizard is a series of rewards incentive book and can increase in the course of time. A free copy of "The fall of the neglected nanny" PDF e-book customers with any purchase of the BibliOZ Web site can be requested, otherwise, AU will cost $ 9.95. The e-book biography and/or that come free with purchases of the Travers put together Mary Poppins stories on the site http://www.mary-poppins-birthplace.net available
E-Mail Sherlock (at) Booktown (dot) com.au for more information about connecting this quest or go to http://www.mary-poppins-birthplace.net
ED note high resolution images are available.
Photo credits: Umbrella mosaic Bradman oval 7 May 2011: Clint Crawley photography
Paul & Melissa McShane as Sherlock Holmes & Mary of Poppins: Corinne Dany photography
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Convenor - BookTown Australia
(Paul McShane of a renowned Winston Churchill Fellowship 2002 Commission, international research into the Booktown received movement.) It was within Australian organize the 2004 Festival of the book in Bowral, which his daughter Melissa aware of the connection was had with the author of Mary Poppins.)
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