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Campbell, Jenny

 Person

Interviewer with the Southland Oral History Project

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

SELBIE, Helen Audrey interviewed by Jenny Campbell

 Record Group — Box: 1
Identifier: H0105
Overview In this interview Helen talks of her family history, life and education in Australia and her family’s love of music and her passion for ballet. She also looks at her sibling’s careers and marriages and her own career in physiotherapy. She then talks of her own marriage, children, life on the farm, farming practice and crops grown e.g. Fescue seed, Cockswood Grass, Red Clover and the planting of a forestry block. Helen also looks at her husband John’s family history and her social life centred...
Dates: 2013

STRINGER, Isobel Mary interviewed by Jenny Campbell

 Record Group — Box: 11
Identifier: H0163
Overview In this interview Isobel tells of her life growing up and living in the Mossburn area on a farm. She recalls getting electricity, the coal range and oil lamps. She learnt to play the piano and played the organ every second Sunday at Church. Isobel talks of meeting and marrying her husband and their 6 children and her interest in gardening and family recreational times. She recalls the community fundraising activities for the new Community Centre. In 1980 they moved to Queenstown.
Dates: 2007