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Italian Food and Culture in Mineral Point

Italian Food and Culture in Mineral Point

Iowa County Blog, Italian Food and Culture

  When 28-year-old Charles Galle arrived in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, in 1902, his possessions included the clothes on his back and a small packet of Italian pepper seeds. He had carefully carried the seeds from his home in the southern Italian region of...

A Grove of Fitzsimonses

Harold's Favorite Places - Iowa County, Iowa County Blog

On the north side of Mineral Point, where Pine Street turns westward into Garden and Alice streets, is a cluster of properties that is no longer owned by my mother’s family, but once was a Fitzsimons compound of sorts. It once held the homes of several close-knit...
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If you like this you'll love the O'Shaughnessy Chronicles!

When a sibling unexpectedly inherits his grandfather’s dairy farm, Will O’Shaughnessy turns to selling Fords in rural, pre-World War I southwestern Wisconsin.

A richly wistful epic tale of a bygone era....Readers will yearn for more. ~ Midwest Book Review

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