A fortnightly gathering over the past four decades has slowly rolled these former tobacco farmers — once isolated, a world away from their Italian homes — into a family.
As sure as clockwork, an empty auditorium nestled in Victoria's high country slowly begins to stir to life on a Thursday afternoon.
Rich smells of comforting meals from the homeland like gnocchi and minestrone hang in the air, and tombola cards are carefully laid out.ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin SomervilleFor many of these Myrtleford women, their fortnightly gathering for the past 40 years is like coming home.Thursdays have slowly rolled these former tobacco farmers — once isolated, a world away from their Italian homes — into a family.
"This is the home away from home," says 90-year-old Eric Fanton, slowly sitting at a table with a card game spread across its laminated grain surface.Club Savoy is a place where many former tobacco workers have become family."All the clubs now, they eventually , even in America."He moved from Italy to Myrtleford in 1964 aged 17."I didn't know anything about tobacco," he says.
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