Interview with Christina Zampin [sound recording] / Interviewer : Madeleine Regan

Interview with Christina Zampin for the Italian Market Gardeners oral history project. Christina was born on 29 August 1942 in Adelaide, the fifth of nine children of Silvano Primo Zampin and Amelia Catherine Zampin nee Shaw. SHe begins the interview with details of her family backghround includeing her parents initially meeting at the West Terrace Cemetery in Adelaide and their marriage in 1930, their market garden on Henley Beach Road, Lockleys and a description of the house that she grew up in for the first 12 or so years of her life. Other areas covered include: her godparetns and their relationship with her and her parents; her schooling at two Catholic schools; leaving school at 14 years (whcih was the pattern in the family); working in a variety of jobs; memory of market gardens along Grange Road at Flinders Park in the early 1960s; family life as she was growing up; her mother's shopping arrangements; her mother's Italian cooking learned from her father and Italian friends; her part's social life and outings with other Veneto families; the significance of the Veneto Club; visitin her maternal grandmother. Christ describes her parents' market garden, first at Lockleys and then at Angley Avenue, Findon; the range of vegetables grown; glasshouses; her tasks to help her parents after schol and during school holidays; the move to Findon; the importance of owning land for her parents; conections with other Veneto market gardening families; the sale of most of the land when her parents were older; and maintaining the last glasshouses as her father's hobby. In the final part of the interview, Christine speaks about her Italian heritage.