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By her own admission, Jacky Yeo has never stood still, so it was asking for trouble when she accompanied her husband, Geoff, on a business trip to Canowindra 11 years ago. While Geoff was in his meeting, Jacky took a wander up the winding main street that followed a path taken by the early settlers’ bullock drays, when the town was first surveyed in the 1860s. She was immediately attracted by Gaskill Street’s historic ambience and the many historic double-storeyed buildings that lined it. Inevitably, her interest was piqued when she discovered that one

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