Awards. In 2012, Fremantle Press published a postmodern interpretation of Moondyne Joe's life, The Ballad of Moondyne Joe, including poems and prose by John Kinsella and Niall Lucy. In song and verse In 1982 a musical/play was written by Roy Abbott and Roger Montgomery of the Mucky Duck Bush Band and performed by Mucky Duck and friends at various venues. Memorials A railway siding on the Eastern Goldfields Railway in Johns' area of operations in the Avon Valley has been named "Moondyne", most likely after the man rather than the area. Festivals On the first Sunday of May, the township of Toodyay celebrates the life and times of Moondyne Joe by holding the Moondyne Festival. This festival takes place in the main street with street theatre, market stalls, demonstrations and the entire town is generally transported back to earlier years. See also Cornish Australians List of convicts transported to Australia List of convict ship voyages to Western Australia References External links M. Tamblyn, 'Johns, Joseph Bolitho (1827–1900)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, Johns, Joseph Bolitho (1827–1900), published in hardcopy 1972, accessed online 10 February 2014 Family History site at dbolitho.co.uk 1826 births 1900 deaths Australian escapees Australian miners British escapees Burials at Fremantle Cemetery Bushrangers Convict escapees in Australia Convicts transported to Western Australia Australian people of Cornish descent British emigrants to Australia Criminals from Western Australia Deaths from dementia in Australia Escapees from British detention Escapees from Western Australian detention Fugitives People from Illogan People from Toodyay, Western Australia Settlers of Western Australia