Bush Parties and Booze Cruises were shaped mainly out of the necessity to find a “place to party” but they did represent more than the material practicalities of space. Both activities became symbols of rural identity and as such were proliferated to mark and proclaim that identity. The Bush Party was heralded as a badge of hardiness. In the small town, rural people were closer to nature and partied under the stars, in the great outdoors.

This blood, I am informed, saved him many lammings from the head of the house, who, though Keeper of the Fives, fainted at first sight of it […]

The state treasurer shall deposit all moneys received under this Act in a special fund to be known as the honey fund. All moneys deposited in the honey fund shall, subject to legislative appropriation, be expended by the commissioner for use pursuant to this Act.

As maculism ceased to be a viable option in Catholic theology, however, theologians who argued that Mary had some debt to Adam, proximate or remote, often adhered to some form of mitigated Thomism or mitigated Scotism […].