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When the sea flooded the town at king tide, it was a brilliant Ming blue… Many of the houses on the edge of Chinatown were built on high cement foundations, and they were like little island. On those days the water would come right through to Sun pictures, and we'd paddle around the town in canoes made from old sheets of iron. It was something to see.
In the montage of memoir, art, silk paintings and photograph, Sally Bin Demin remembers her childhood growing up in Broome during the 1940s and 1950s. As one the 'after the war kids', Sally's lifestyle was embedded in the many cultural traditions of the people who lived in the old pearling town. She had the world at her doorstep.