Stories from Marin’s past. . . When I moved to Marin County in the 1990s, I landed in Mill Valley, where I became fascinated with its local history. I discovered the history of that town through its historical society, where I served on the Board for several years. When I started conducting oral histories for […]
Read more »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 […]
Read more »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 […]
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