Vintage Weekend: Whanganui gearing up for long weekend as vintage fans flock in
15 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Contestants front up in their best vintage costumes at the 2020 Caboodle in Whanganui.
Photo / Lewis Gardner
Contestants front up in their best vintage costumes at the 2020 Caboodle in Whanganui.
Photo / Lewis Gardner
Liz Wylie is a reporter for the Whanganui Chronicleliz.wylie@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
Whanganui s biggest party is now less than a week away and organisers say that Bayleys Whanganui Vintage Weekend will be bigger and brighter than ever this year, writes Liz Wylie. The streets, river and skies will be alive with the sights and sounds of decades past as Whanganui welcomes a stunning array of machines, performers and costumes that celebrate the city s exciting past for the three-day weekend.
Whanganui structures preserved in ink
20 Dec, 2020 04:13 AM
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Katie Hedgman-Dalton is producing a series of cards with ink drawings of local buildings and landmarks. Photo / Paul Brooks
Paul Brooks is editor of Whanganui Midweek, in your letterbox every Wednesdaypaul.brooks@nzme.co.nz
Katie Hedgman-Dalton finished her second year of a Bachelor of Design and Art at UCOL in July and has embarked on a project guaranteed to interest a lot of Whanganui people.
She is creating a series of postcards featuring the city s landmarks faithfully recreated in ink.
It s a combined effort, with her husband Kyle Dalton and his knowledge of Whanganui history, and her artistic talent.