Beryl Kennedy [interview, part 1]

Beryl Kennedy (nee Murray) is a Ngiyampaa woman who speaks about the repatriation ceremony in November 2017, and the mood as the hearse carrying the remains of Mungo Man was driven by her grandsons Dane and Damien, and stopped in her hometown of Hay, NSW on the way to Mungo National Park. Beryl also speaks about her early family life, her father Victor serving in the army during WWII, and meeting her husband Roy in the early 1950s and their six children.

This interview was part of a collaboration between Louise Darmody and the State Library of New South Wales. The interviews were conducted by Louise Darmody, journalist, oral historian, producer, and founder of Sound Memories an oral history and documentary-making firm established in 2003.

These oral history recordings document the personal stories behind the Mungo Man historic repatriation process which took place on the 16-19th November 2017. After 43 years the Traditional Custodians brought Mungo Man and other internationally significant ancestral remains home to Mungo National Park within the Willandra Lakes Region World Heritage area in New South Wales.
 

The full catalogue record is online at http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110616132 

Part of this interview has been transcribed and is available on Amplify at: 
https://amplify.gov.au/transcripts/Beryl_Kennedy_1_interview_180413

https://amplify.gov.au/transcripts/Beryl_Kennedy_2_interview_180413