Matong Hut inner west Nature Always Finds a Way

Nature Always Finds a Way at Wangi Wangi

sunlight cutting through the dust settling across scattered textbooks

closed as a school in 1983

and the only structure of its kind at a rural terminus in NSW

and these gauges would have monitored the steam plant that ran here continuously from 1921 until full electrification in 1982

Matong Hut inner west Nature Always Finds a WayWeathered timber walls, once painted pink, stand beneath a corrugated iron roof somewhere in rural New South Wales. A brick chimney rises at one end; flat grass paddocks stretch out in every direction, cloud building low on the horizon. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.