Category: History

  • Plogging the Box Flat [mine disaster] Memorial

    Plogging the Box Flat [mine disaster] Memorial

    In this episode, Trinity Anderson (producer and narrator of Plog Vlog) takes a brief detour from her mother’s diaries to honour a tragedy that shaped Queensland’s history: the Box Flat mine disaster of 1972. As Trinity reflects on the 17 lives lost underground, she also reveals another entry from her late mother Liz’s journals (this one written just after Liz turned 16). It’s a story of fear, defiance, and a desperate escape into the unknown. If you’re following Liz’s unfolding journey, or just discovering Plog Vlog for the first time, this episode offers both solemn remembrance and raw emotion.

  • Plogging Kingston Pioneer Cemetery

    Plogging Kingston Pioneer Cemetery

    My wife and I recently plogged Kingston Pioneer Cemetery.

    The place isn’t loud about its history. It rests behind a quiet fence, tucked between suburbia and industry, where lives once lived are marked by headstones that lean a little now… some broken, some unreadable, some gone altogether. There’s peace there; not manufactured stillness, but the deep calm that comes from being left mostly alone.

    It’s the kind of place where wind through trees keeps company with memory, where roots trace the outlines of stories attached to fading names.

    We brought a couple of buckets and plogged gently, trying not to disturb anything that should be left undisturbed. We didn’t come to clean the place up entirely; we just came to leave it a little better than we found it. A few pieces of plastic removed from around the resting places of people who never knew plastic.

    Some places need noise to be remembered; others just need someone to notice. I feel most at home in the quiet places.

    Here’s the video we made while plogging this quiet place.