!["The house [at Corbie Hill] didn’t have electricity, a bathroom or hot running water. I used this big pasta saucepan from Italy to boil water to bath the kids. It turned out to be the best thing I could have bought. I lost the handles because I used it so much, so I found some wire and made some handles myself. "](wp-content/uploads/2008/07/saucepan-150x150.jpg)
Meet Domenica Artese and see the pasta saucepan from Italy she used to make bathwater for her kids when they arrived in Australia in 1955. Continue reading
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Meet Teresa Iannelli and see her café latte cup from Italy. Continue reading
Meet Salvatore Papasidero and see the exercise book he used for English classes in Australia.
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!["My Aunty Caterina asked us to bring her one, no-one had one here. In Italy, we boil the ripe tomatoes, then squeeze [them] through the sieve. We would do this every time we have pasta sauce which was a lot."](wp-content/uploads/2008/10/sieve-150x150.jpg)
Meet Carmela Pasquetti and see her tomato sieve from Italy. Continue reading
Meet Teresa Pirrottina and see her cup and saucer from Italy.
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Meet Fella Porcu and see the sheets she hand-made in Italy.
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!["We stuffed the cover [with wool] so we would have a bed to sleep on. I always found it funny that we bought wool to Australia where so much wool was produced."](wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wool-150x150.jpg)
Meet Antonio Punturiero and see the wool his family brought from Italy in the late 1940s.
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Meet Nino Rombola and see his farm hoe from Italy.
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Meet Rosina Rombola and see the Italian weaving frame used to make patterns on her home-made nacatoli biscuits and macaroni pasta.
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