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    The Ben Roberts Cafe and Gallery

    Jan 22, 2020 4 minutes

    The Ben Roberts Cafe and Gallery is a new art venue in the Blue Mountains. Owner Carolynne Skinner has a long history of arts publishing and running galleries. She tells here how her new gallery came about …

    Many people, including those living here, do not realise that we in the Blue Mountains live in the oldest land on earth. When the Grand Canyon in Arizona was just a few centimetres deep, the dissected sandstone plateau which is the Blue Mountains looked much as it does today. Aboriginal peoples lived here during the last Ice Age (22,000 years ago), hunting and performing their rituals.

    It is probably not so surprising therefore that many creative people feel a strong attraction to this place and that we

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