Insights to an Island
A personal history as told by Kangaroo Islanders. Many thanks to John Ayliffe for the time, effort, and foresight in recording these interviews in the 1990s. Thanks also to Jenny Clapson for the original illustrations which accompanied these interviews in their original cassette form. Please click on this link to see the illustrations.
Islanders tell of shipwrecks, possum trapping, road making, fire, births and deaths, high adventure and hilarious incidents.
Gifford Chapman
The drowning of Richard and Jenny Chapman in 1886
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The wreck of the Loch Sloy in 1899
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Harry Boettcher
Coming to settle on KI in 1904 (in three parts)
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Reg Bald
Bill Ilse the possum trapper (in three parts)
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Rene Clark
Home life on Dudley Peninsula at the turn of the 20th Century (in three parts)
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Jim Tiggerman
A country dance and the fire at the Ozone Hotel
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Clinton Christophers
Road making
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Jim Tiggerman
Road making
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Harry Boettcher and Jim Tiggerman
Old Strawbridge (in two parts)
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