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BULLBOAR, MACARONI & MINERAL WATER
- Spa Country's Swiss Italian Story
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by Clare Gervasoni

2nd edition 2007 - $33 + postage & handling

This 128 page book features stunning photographs, lists over 800 names, and gives an overview of the amazing goldfield settlement of Italian Speakers around the Daylesford District.

Many local stories are included, and many more are sought
for further publications.

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STIR THE SAUCEView Stir the Sauce Cover Page

Hepburn Springs Swiss/Italian Festa
Pasta Sauce Recipe Book 1993

This pasta sauce recipe book is a gathering of some of the recipes that are alive in our community today.  It also celebrates the first Hepburn Springs Swiss-Italian Festa.  It is dedicated to the memory of the Swiss-Italiaan settlers and all those who came in search of a special place to call home....18 July 1993

This book is OUT OF PRINT

 

 

 

 

your friend Alberto ZelmanView your friend Alberto Zelman front cover

The Story of Alberto Zelman and the Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra

by Don Fairweather

First Edition 1984

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This engaging book makes it clear that in the years from 1906 to 1927 the dynamo of music [in Melbourne] was Alberto Zelman.  Born in Carlton, a child prodigy with a violin, he became possibly the finest violinist in Australia, the founder of some of Melbourne's most successful musical groups and the conductor of its main orchestra and choir.

 

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Come and enjoy local schools entertain in Italian.

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Winery Wanderer Bus Tour

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Literary Feast - The Leopard

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Heritage Centre

Sun 17 October 2010

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Family Bocce Tournament

Tournament played under the supervision of the Boccé Federation of Australia. Try your luck at the traditional game of boccé as played in the village squares of northern Italy.

Sun 17 October 2010

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Literary Feast - Alice in Wonderland

Dress up and come prepared for a 'Mad' afternoon of fun.

Thu 21 October 2010

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Heritage Bush Walk – Lafranchi’s Hut

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Boccia


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Winery Wanderer Bus Tour

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Giovani Calcisti in Torneo - Soccer

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Heritage Centre

Sun 24 October 2010

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Sacred Music In Sacred Places

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