Miners, Milkers & Merchants - Geary, Marilyn L.
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Miners, Milkers & Merchants is an moving story of immigrants and history brought alive through the letters of three Swiss-Italian brothers who migrated from Ticino to Australia and California during the nineteenth century. Forced by poverty from the Swiss Canton of Ticino, they joined the over twenty-nine thousand emigrants, one out of five inhabitants, who left Ticino between the 1850s and the 1930s. In letters written to their father Luigi, the brothers tell of their hopes, fears, and struggles. They share excitement at new sights, announce successes, lament their sorrows and express…mehr

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Miners, Milkers & Merchants is an moving story of immigrants and history brought alive through the letters of three Swiss-Italian brothers who migrated from Ticino to Australia and California during the nineteenth century. Forced by poverty from the Swiss Canton of Ticino, they joined the over twenty-nine thousand emigrants, one out of five inhabitants, who left Ticino between the 1850s and the 1930s. In letters written to their father Luigi, the brothers tell of their hopes, fears, and struggles. They share excitement at new sights, announce successes, lament their sorrows and express yearnings for home.Their letters reveal details of mid-nineteenth century life in Northern California's dairy lands, silver-booming San Francisco, and Australia's gold country. They reflect the universal story of all immigrants: the dreams, fears, failures, courage, hard work, and leaps of faith required to start a new life in a foreign land.
Autorenporträt
Marilyn L. Geary is an oral historian and author specializing in immigration studies. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UC Berkeley, Marilyn received a B.A. in English Literature/History and an M.A. in Education from San Francisco State University, after which she worked for the Italian Government Travel Office, ENIT-Agenzia Nazionale Turismo, in San Francisco. She conducted her first oral histories with Sicilian fishermen on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Following a career in information technology and instructional design, Marilyn combined her love of language and history to create Circle of Life Stories, helping people write their family histories and working with communities and organizations on oral history and community memory projects. . She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, in the San Geronimo Valley of West Marin, where she writes, creates fiber art and travels when possible to more remote regions of the world to explore her interests in textiles and tribal cultures.