Welcome to AirNmenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Giuseppe was a fisherman, and when he came to the United States just before 1900, he

wasn't dreaming of anything else.

Except maybe some children to inherit his work ethic, his courage, and what he knew about

the world.

In short, his legacy.

That would be a challenge though, because Giuseppe had left his own roots behind.

You see Giuseppe and his wife Rosalie got married just a year before leaving their hometown

on the coast of Sicily.

It was a place where fishing was a way of life.

Ancient cisterns for fermenting fish still tell the story of just how long people have

been passing down that livelihood.

And in some ways Giuseppe was holding on to that history.

He was destined to spend his life working hard as a fisherman, but he saw a future for

himself, his wife, and his trade as he raised his fortunes catch by catch in a new land.

At the turn of the 20th century, there was a string of travelers leaving their town and

heading to a new home, a small village 25 miles north of San Francisco called Martinez,

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