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Search Results for: Leeton Italian Heritage Group

"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. "
Domenica Artese

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 →

"I love these. They remind me of breakfasts with my brothers and sisters and because I was the youngest, Mum would always spoil me."
Teresa Iannelli

Meet Teresa Iannelli and see her café latte cup from Italy. Continue reading →

"I used it to write diary notes on the ship and for English night classes in Griffith with my brother. I remember I copied what my brother wrote. He wrote it down wrong and I wrote it down wrong too!"
Salvatore Papasidero

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."
Carmela Pasquetti Belongings

Meet Carmela Pasquetti and see her tomato sieve from Italy. Continue reading →

"This was Mum's wedding present. In Italy you had the small coffee or a café latte, which is popular here now. These special things were used for special occasions or when the doctor would come around. I remember Mum being proud of these. It is nice to remember your mum with the different things that made her happy."
Teresa Pirrottina

Meet Teresa Pirrottina and see her cup and saucer from Italy.
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"I made these sheets with pink edging by hand in Sardinia as part of my glory box. It would have taken a month to make. I would sit outside with my family and ladies next door, and do my sewing."
Raffaella (Fella) Porcu

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."
Antonio Punturiero Belongings

Meet Antonio Punturiero and see the wool his family brought from Italy in the late 1940s.
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"I used the hoe a lot when I arrived in Leeton, farming with my father and on my own. I have used it even in my garden at the house in town."
Antonino Rombola Belongings

Meet Nino Rombola and see his farm hoe from Italy.
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weaving frame
Rosina Rombola

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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SWEET HARVESTS

http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/cms/wp-content/uploads/videos/sweetharvests.mp4
South Sea Islander and Indian communities on the banana farms and cane fields of the Tweed.

A Tweed River Regional Museum and NSW Migration Heritage Centre video.

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FAMILIES OF FORTUNE

http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/cms/wp-content/uploads/videos/familiesoffortune.m4v Chinese migrants to the Tweed worked as market gardeners, banana growers, cooks, herbalists and shopkeepers.

A Tweed River Regional Museum and NSW Migration Heritage Centre video.

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