Author Archives: sabrinadavis5223

“I grew up on a farm during the depression and met Tom the day I started work at a station. We both started on the same day, Tom as a station hand and me as a nanny and housemaid. I was about 16 or 17 years old. We quickly got friendly with each other andContinue reading “Ivy”

“When I was living with Mum and Dad, we used to travel a lot and never really go to school. We would just travel around South Australia, up north, to Broken Hill, Oodnadatta, the Rock, places like that. We travelled in the car and drove around everywhere. I enjoyed the travelling very much because IContinue reading “Korelle”

“I am six years old and was born here. Mum and Dad are from the USA and I’ve been there maybe a couple of times, but I don’t really remember it. Because we can’t visit right now, I miss my grandparents. I remember going to a house with a statue of the three little pigsContinue reading “Kiva”

“I came over here in ‘83 with Mom and Dad; I think I was 18 or 19 then. I just finished my first-year pre-vocational trade course at Maleston and I didn’t have any work. I came over to KI for probably four or five months and then I had a job opportunity up in theContinue reading “Jonny”

“I have lived on the island all my life.  I am sixth generation, with family names being Snelling, Calnan and Chapman on my mother’s side. My mum grew up at Middle River then Snug Cove, running up and down the cliffs with the goats before she moved to Kingscote for work.  My Grandparents, Ross andContinue reading “Cheryl”

… sharing her dad Stephen ‘Beau’ Waller’s story in loving memory …. a brother to Marj and Gladys “My Dad was your quintessential Aussie Bloke, full of Aussie idioms like “fair dinkum”, “pass the dead horse”, “want to go watch the fish jump”, “I’m going to see a man about a dog” and many moreContinue reading “Angela”

…is sharing her and her sister’s story in loving memory of Gladys, who recently passed away. “People don’t always realise I was born here; mostly people who’ve come from Adelaide say, ‘where are you from,’ and I say, ‘I’ve always lived here.’ Our dad was born over here and he was from a big family.Continue reading “Marj”

“I am fourteen years old and I grew up on the island. My family and me live on a farm just outside of Parndana but at the moment I travel back and forth between here and Adelaide where I attend school. I started collecting bread tags about two years ago after someone told me aboutContinue reading “Regan”

“I didn’t grow up here, I grew up in a place called Woodend which is at the bottom of Mount Macedon. Music is one of my absolute passions, I’m an avid songwriter. I love blues and grew up in a household full of African music and Harry Belafonte. My mother was black American, my fatherContinue reading “Christine”