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White Lives in a Black Community: The lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha communityTracy SpencerVolume One Creative Writing Component: Excerpted Chapters from Volume Three Appendix OnePhotography courtesy of Frank WarwickWinbar Station, 2004Winbar station was a drive inland, towards the Rankin Ranges, on the high ground where thefloods would not reach the cool set of transportable buildings that made a home for the youngfamily running Winbar Station. They knew where the old Winbar Station had been, and drewme a map to find it, right on the river, they said.It certainly was. The plan of the house was clear from the foundations on the ground, andthe cellar was still intact. I think Becky could have thrown a stone from the rear courtyard tothe river, were the black wattles not as dense in her time. The station buildings strung outalong the bank: men’s quarters to the east of the homestead; vegetable gardens, chook yards,stables, round yard, cattle yards, and finally sheep pens strung out to the west. Barges wouldhave tied up on the river bank gums and stock and other cargo loaded straight on or off40