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After two years of unpaid hard work Pat got her first paid job as an assistant in the X-Ray Dept of a hospital.
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Joyce talks about her first job in Adelaide after having moved down from Peterborough.
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Jill 's great grandfather HH Tilbrook wrote notebooks of his journeys throughout South Australia. Here she reads the introduction to his journey via rail to the South East of the State.
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Bill tells us about attending a rodeo at Jubilee Oval in Adelaide. Sir Sydney Kidman organised the rodeo for the people of South Australia to celebrate his birthday.
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Knee-High By The 4 th Of July Growing up in the snow belt of Northern New Jersey, the Footloose Forester was aware of the fact that our little town was about 10 degrees colder than...
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Seventy-nine is just fine for this lady born in 1934, in New Mexico. Leola Butler has lived in Salem since1968 when she and her husband, Glen, bought the home in which she still lives. While in high school she worked at an Indian Trading Post in Ship Rock, New Mexico....
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Grocery shopping with Mother and Daddy was pretty interesting. We shopped on Friday evening because Friday was pay day. I guess it began on Thursday night when we had leftovers for supper, both to pare down the contents of the refrigerator and to avoid waste. Then on Friday morning Mother defrosted and cleaned...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek You Ask Too Many Questions When strangers come together at places like a long line at Disney World, or in the waiting room of a doctor’s office, impromptu conversations sometimes develop as a way to...
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Judith says that over the years she has been blessed to have good neighbours. She talks about the relationships she has enjoyed with neighbours through her life.
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One of Annette's friends, Margaret, very kindly gave her a doll's for her 6 years old granddaughter. Margaret was given the doll's house as a child.
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Joyce and her husband bought land in a new subdivision at Newton South Australia in 1959 and in 1964 moved into their new home, where they still live today. Joyce describes her neighbours over the years and the sound neighbourly relationships that they share.
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Alice continues to relate the story of her late husband Stan Kowalski and his journey from Poland to South Australia. He and his Polish friends journey from Minnipa to Kowulka by rail, where they set up camp to work on the railway. Kowulka was in western South Australia past Ceduna, in...
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Judith talks about her various jobs in the Public Sector in Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide and Darwin and the friends she made.
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Annette talks about the new friends she has made as a member of Life Story Circle and her old and treasured friends from her school days.
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Joyce started her working career circa 1951 at John Martin's Retail store and after a few months moved to Myer in the Jewellery Dept. After spending several years raising her children, she re-entered the workforce in 1975 as an off-set printer for TAFE, where she took on additional roles as Staff...
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