Interview on Swiss-Italian Immigration

August 14, 2021Australia, California, Ticinomarlgear

Researching Swiss-Italian immigration for Miners, Milkers & Merchants has taken me to the places the immigrant brothers settled. I visited Daylesford and the Australian Gold Country in Victoria to see the places where the immigrants lived and worked one hundred years earlier. I traveled to the Vallemaggia in Ticino to visit their homeland in the […]

Swiss-Italian Immigrant Jerry Adams — the Most Popular Mayor in Marin County

June 16, 2021California, Ticinomarlgear

In 1869, fifteen-year-old Giacinto Adami left his village of Giumaglio in the Vallemaggia, Ticino, Switzerland to join his older brother Giuseppe, who worked on a dairy ranch in the Olema Valley near Bolinas, Marin County, California. As did so many of his contemporaries, Giacinto left home to find a better life, traveling to a place […]