The Northern Midlands Council or Municipality of Northern Midlands is a Local Government Area of Tasmania. It covers the northern part of the central midlands agricultural area, around the Midland Highway.
Major population centres include the towns of Avoca, Campbell Town, Cressy, Evandale, Liffey, Longford, and Perth.
Famous quotes containing the words northern, midlands and/or council:
“Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
Twelve ragged men, the council of charity
Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)