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Sausalito Portuguese Cultural Center The IDESST Sausalito Portuguese Cultural Center was established in 1888 and is one of Marin's premium rental venues for special events and parties.

Membership in our organization is open to are interested in Portuguese history and culture and history. The IDESST is a Portuguese social center established in Sausalito, California in 1888 as a focal point for Portuguese culture and traditions in Marin County. First and foremost is our annual celebration of the "Festa do Espírito Santo" (Festival of the Holy Spirit). Marin County has a long history of Portuguese immigration, in particular from the Azores, and our IDESST Sausalito Portuguese Cultural Center serves as a gathering place for descendants seeking to preserve or re-connect with their rich Portuguese heritage, as well as the many Luso-aficionados. Our Center continues to serve its members, their families and future generations by preserving and promoting Portuguese history, traditions and culture into the 21st century. The Center sponsors many fun and exciting events in Marin County for the entire family. In addition to the Holy Spirit Festa, the Center hosts or supports events like the summer "Espetada" Picnic, the “Noite de Fado” (evening of Fado music), “Festa de Natal” (Christmas dinner), European Portuguese language lessons, and casual social gatherings. Of course, no Portuguese event is complete without food and w**e and the IDESST Hall is fortunate to have our culinary offerings overseen by Manuel Azevedo, one of our Past Presidents and the Executive Chef and Owner of the renowned Portuguese restaurant in Sonoma, LaSalette. Membereship in our organization is open to anyone who supports our mission and has an interest in Portuguese history and culture.

Tony Ferreira -- Deep Roots in Marin and Sonoma Dairy History Does anyone recognize the handsome guy in these pictures? ...
08/31/2026

Tony Ferreira -- Deep Roots in Marin and Sonoma Dairy History

Does anyone recognize the handsome guy in these pictures? If you guessed Tony Ferreira of Petaluma, you are correct! Those photos appeared in the January 16, 2015 issue of the Petaluma Argus-Courier, part of a story by Harlan Osborne entitled "Ferreira's milk bottle collection is Grade A." The article is available online (https://www.petalumanews.com/2015/01/16/ferreiras-milk-bottle-collection-is-grade-a/), but may only be accessible by subscribers. I have included a copy in the comments below.

One of the reasons I love researching our history is the people it has given me the chance to meet. One of them was Tony who I first met in connection with work I was doing a few years ago with the Marin History Museum on a milk bottle exhibit (as the Argus-Courier article suggests, a topic about which he knows quite a bit!). He kindly invited me to visit him at his home in Petaluma for a chat and to see his impressive collection (see the photo of Tony' collection in the comments). He has continued to be a friend and valuable resource ever since.

Tony's father, Antonio Gonsalves Ferreira, was born on the Azorean island of Terceira. He was single when he first came to California, and after working here for a while returned to Terceira where he married Tony's mother, Tereza de Jesus Ormonde They returned to California and located in the Imperial Valley. They then moved to the far north of the state, ultimately ending up in Humboldt County where one of Antonio's brothers was working on a farm. Tony, the second of Antonio and Tereza's five children, was born in 1933 in the small town of Fresh Water, just east of Eureka.

In 1937, when Tony was four, the Ferreira family moved south to Marin. Antonio's brother-in-law, Frank de Mello, was working as a milker on the Freitas Home Ranch in what is today Terra Linda (see the comments below for an aerial overview of the Terra Linda/Lucas Valley area with the locations of the various dairies that operated there) and was able to help with the relocation. Antonio found a job as a milker on the Santa Margherita Ranch just to the north across the hills in Lucas Valley and the Ferreira family took up residence in a mobile home on the adjacent Luiz Dairy. The Santa Margherita Ranch had just been acquired by an insurance executive named Herman Behrens from the Manuel Freitas estate, and the dairy was operated by a partnership including George Alpers (a former San Rafael mayor and a founder of Marin County Milk Co., acquired by Borden in 1930), G.C. Pinheiro (the superintendent of the Borden plant in San Rafael), and Manuel Pimentel, another prominent Marin dairyman.

In 1942, Joseph Bettencourt took over the dairy operation at the Santa Margherita Ranch. He had owned a dairy in the Waldo community just north of Sausalito, but his property had been expropriated by the government for the new Marin City community supporting the Marinship project. As a result of that ownership change, Antonio lost his job. However, he was able to find work on the Big Rock Ranch owned by Manuel Teixeira just a couple of miles west on Lucas Valley Road, and the family moved there. That property was much later acquired by George Lucas and is today home to the Summit Skywalker Ranch and Skywalker Vineyards (https://www.skywalkerretreats.com/summit-skywalker-ranch).

Tony and his siblings initially attended Loma Alta School located on Lucas Valley Road between the Grady and Luiz ranches, a walk of a couple of miles each way (more challenging on the uphill leg coming home after school) and later San Rafael High. When Tony was old enough to get a junior learners permit, he was able to drive down Lucas Valley Road from Big Rock to the Highway 101 intersection, but would have to park at the Le Chateau parking lot and take the bus the rest of the way to school.

In 1950 the Ferreira family moved to Schellville in Sonoma County where Antonio operated a dairy along Highway 121. After Antonio passed away in 1956, Tony, who was then 23, took charge of the dairy operation.

In 1960, Tony moved to a new dairy bisected by Rodgers Creek on Arnold Drive. The property was owned by Tom Vella, who established Vella Cheese Company in Petaluma (which sadly just recently closed), and Tony initially leased the property for three years. He ended up spending the next 34 years there, although never signed another formal lease with Tom -- that was back in the days when everything was done on a handshake basis.

Although the Arnold Drive dairy would be Tony's center of operations for the next three decades, he was more broadly active in the dairy business, acquiring cows and milk contracts, and, in 1961, opening the Meadowsweet Drive-In Dairy in Santa Rosa’s Mayette Village. That business did not have any cows of its own, but purchased milk from Tony's dairy and others, which it then pasteurized and bottled on site. The black and white photo above shows Tony paying for butter at Meadowsweet while his brother, Ralph, waits in the car.

Tony retired from dairy farming in 1994, although he remained active for a few more years with Ferreira Sawdust Sales which provided animal bedding to local dairies, nurseries and horse ranches. Today he is still at his home off of Adobe Drive in Petaluma where, as noted, he tends his milk bottle collection

Tony's older sister, Helen Ferreira Mendes, also has a connection to our Center. In 1991 she donated to us a banner that she had sewn in memory of her husband, Manuel Mendes, a former Marin-Dell milk truck driver. That banner was used in our 1991 Festa, and, a couple of years ago, was resurrected and used again. Here's a post we shared about that just prior to our 2024 Festa where Helen's banner proudly led the procession: https://www.facebook.com/100064768144178/posts/836885955147002/?mibextid=wwXIfr.

Many thanks to Tony for his patience and all the help he has given me, and to Tony's niece, Diane Repp, for all her assistance with this post.

Mike Moyle
Historian, IDESST Sausalito Portuguese Cultural Center
Email: [email protected]

We can't really claim that serving as one of our Festa Queens always leads to bigger and better things, but we at least ...
08/18/2026

We can't really claim that serving as one of our Festa Queens always leads to bigger and better things, but we at least wanted to note that Eva Taylor, our 2015 Junior Queen, has received a couple of special honors this year. First, she was selected as the Dairy Princess for District 2 by the California Milk Advisory Board (you can follow her on Instagram!), and then she was picked to be the Junior Grand Marshall at this year's Pt. Reyes Station Western Weekend.

Eva is the daughter of John and Karen Taylor and grew up on the family's BiValve Dairy on the north shore of Tomales Bay. The extended Taylor family have been huge supporters of our organization in a variety of ways, and we appreciate them very much. On the history front, Eva is the great-great granddaughter of Joseph and Zena Mendonça from the Azores who purchased the “A” and “B”ranches at the tip of Pt. Reyes in 1919. For more about that history, see this post we shared back in 2021 - https://bit.ly/3xAzxDe.

Our good friends at FLAD (the Luso-American Development Foundation -- Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento) ha...
08/18/2026

Our good friends at FLAD (the Luso-American Development Foundation -- Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento) have asked us to share the below information about an essay contest they are hosting.

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Applications are now open for the POV – Point of View essay contest. As we celebrate 250 years of US Independence and 250 years of friendship between Portugal and the United States, FLAD will select three essays written by young US citizens of Portuguese ancestry, dedicated to relationship between our two countries. Essays may include connections to the 250th anniversary of the US.

Prize

The winner will be awarded the amount of $2,000, and will have the opportunity to have their essay published in a Portuguese-American media outlet.

Second place will be awarded to two candidates, who will each receive a prize of $1,000.

Who can apply

The call is open to all young people between the ages of 18 and 23 (as of the application deadline) who are US citizens of Portuguese ancestry.

How to apply

Applicants must submit, by September 20th, an original essay (not previously published) that presents the author’s perspective on the topic.

Applications must be submitted via the online form available at this link: https://flad.my.salesforce-sites.com/apex/CandidaturaInfo?language=en&tipo=POV_USA_Elections&candidatura=POV%20-%20point%20of%20View%202026%20-%20The%20250th%20Anniversary%20of%20the%20U.S.%20Independence

Selection

Essays will be reviewed by FLAD, which will select the three winners.

For questions regarding the contest, please contact [email protected] (cc: [email protected]).

Manuel Silveira Amaral - A Marin Dairy Farming LegacyI hope everyone enjoyed the photos from our 1950 Festa that we shar...
08/14/2026

Manuel Silveira Amaral - A Marin Dairy Farming Legacy

I hope everyone enjoyed the photos from our 1950 Festa that we shared in the post earlier this week. A number of those were from a family collection that Beverley Marques shared with us, and several in our post featured her mother, Isabel Borba Marques.

There were many other photos in that collection, including the two shown here. They were likely taken in the early 1950's and show Manuel Silveira Amaral and his wife, Marian, who was Beverly's grandmother. It was the second marriage for both of them. Manuel's first wife, Isabel Fonseca Amaral, who we will meet again below, passed away in 1947. Marian's first husband, and Beverly's grandfather, was Manuel Anthony Borba.

Receiving these photos was a particularly pleasant surprise for me since Manuel Amaral was someone I had run into a number of times in the past, most recently in connection with my preparation for my talk for the Marin History Museum about the Marin Dairymen's Milk Company (Marin-Dell). Manuel was one of the original shareholders when the company was organized in 1930, and, twenty years later, was serving as both the Treasurer and a Director of the company. He also helped to found the Novato Dairyman's Milling Company in Novato and was a Director of the Bank of San Rafael. Needless to say, a prominent member of our community.

Manuel and his first wife, Isabel, had two sons, Manuel Jr. and John. Manuel became an engineer and worked at the main Marin-Dell plant on Harrison Street in San Francisco, and John operated the John Amaral Dairy at the end of the San Quentin Peninsula, just across the hills to the north of the prison. This is the dairy that is featured at pp. 73-75 in Volume 1 of the Marin-Dell binders, available on the Novato History Museum website: https://www.novatohistory.org/novato (scroll down to the "Marin Dell Milk Company" link). I have included additional photos in the comments below.

Apart from a discussion of the Amaral dairy, the Marin-Dell binder entry includes a wealth of information about Manuel Amaral's life, just one illustration of the tremendous value of the binders. The information there, supplemented by a bit of additional research, allows us to put together the following timeline for Manuel and his life here in California. The many moves from place to place to pursue better opportunities were very typical of the immigrants of his generation:

~ c1880 - Manuel was born on the island of Faial in the Azores.
~ c1899 - Manuel immigrated to the U.S.
~ 1910 - Per the 1910 census, Manuel was living in Mill Valley with his wife, Isabel, and was employed by the city. That job may have resulted from Manuel's relationship with Antonio Freitas, who was married to Isabel's sister, Maria Fonseca Freitas, and who was a long time Mill Valley employee.
~ 1917 - According to papers filed in connection with the probate of the estate of Francisco Machado, Manuel was a partner at the Alto Dairy in Mill Valley. In addition to Francisco, the others in that partnership included very some familiar figures:
• Manuel Louis Moraes, one of our past Presidents - https://bit.ly/43qJm0N
• Roque Moraes, an early investor in Marin-Dell and a member of the board as of 1950 - https://bit.ly/3XNVM37
• Antonio Freitas, as noted above, Manuel's brother-in-law, and also the father of both Tony Freitas, one of Marin's greatest baseball players (https://bit.ly/3IBlChH), and Alice Freitas, who married Joseph Avella, another of our past Presidents who for many years operated the Hilarita Dairy on Tiburon - https://bit.ly/3tTPgcj.
• J.S. Amaral, a possible relative of Manuel, although no direct relationship has been determined.
~ 1920 - Per the 1920 census, Manuel and Isabel were still living in Mill Valley (at 152 Walnut Avenue) and Manuel was working at a dairy, presumably still the Alto Dairy. However, it appears that in 1920 the Alto Dairy partnership came to an end -- a July 1920 article reports a Bill of Sale to Roque Moraes from the other partners of the Alto Dairy, including Manuel.
~ c1920 - Per the Marin-Dell binder entry, it appears that at this point Manuel and Isabel may have moved to Stockton where Manuel operated a dairy for a period. They then returned to Marin where Manuel operated the Santa Venetia dairy (the Stetson Dairy near where Ventia Valley School is today) for a number of years.
~ 1930 - Per the 1930 census, Manuel and Isabel were living in San Rafael, presumably in the Santa Venetia area. It would have been at this time that Manuel invested in Marin-Dell and it is likely that the Santa Ventia dairy became a Marin-Dell supplier.
~ c1936 - Manuel and Isabel moved to Ignacio, just south of Novato, where Manuel operated a dairy on land owned by Mathias Pedrotti.
~ 1942 - Pedrotti's Ignacio dairy property was needed for the expansion of Hamilton Field and was expropriated by the government. Manuel and Isabel moved to San Rafael and Manuel went into the hay brokerage business
~ 1944 - Manuel's son, John, started operating the dairy on the San Quentin peninsula that is the subject of the Marin-Dell binder entry.
~ 1947 - Isabel died
~ 1950 - Per the 1950 census, Manuel had married Marian and they were living on Villa Avenue in San Rafael (in the Dominican area)
~ 1955 - Manuel died at age 74.

Thanks again to Beverly Marques for sharing all of the family photos!

Mike Moyle
Historian, IDESST Sausalito Portuguese Cultural Center
Email: [email protected]

Where in Sausalito Are We??Can you tell where in Sausalito this lovely photo was taken? See below for the answer.We hav...
08/10/2026

Where in Sausalito Are We??

Can you tell where in Sausalito this lovely photo was taken? See below for the answer.

We have Beverly Marques to thank for this historic picture, and a few more that we will be sharing here and in additional posts over the next few days. Beverly is the daughter of Isabel Borba Marques, our 1953 Senior Queen, and her husband, Sidney. If those names sound familiar, it may be because, coincidentally, Isabel and Sidney also appeared in the post this past week featuring the collection of photos we received from the Brazil family (see Photo "I" - https://bit.ly/4hVIefV). 1953 was the year our organization moved from the original hall on Filbert Street built in 1888, to the brand new hall on Caledonia Street that we occupy today. Both Isabel and our new hall were featured in this 2016 post: https://bit.ly/3GcsdkT.

If you guessed that this photo was taken in front of our original hall on Filbert Street, you are correct. Beverly told us that she thought it was from our 1950 Festa, which would mean it was taken on May 28 -- Pentecost Sunday that year.

It is such a detailed photo that you can really make out individuals. We can identify Isabel Borba and her good friend, Rosemarie Lopes from Tennessee Valley, in the photo. See our comments below for additional photos of the two of them taken on that day. Can anyone identify other individuals?

Our Senior Queen in 1950 was Mary Franco from San Mateo, and our Junior Queen was Kathy Silva Kirkland, the daughter of our past President, Manuel Silva, and his wife, Dorothy Pimentel Silva. An article about the 1950 Festa and photos of our Queens are included with the comments below. Manuel and Dorothy Silva were also the uncle and aunt of Jean Silva, our 1957 Senior Queen who was featured in our post a couple of days ago.

Did anyone out there attend our Festa in the years before 1952 when our organization was still in the original hall on Filbert Street? I assume the photo shared above was taken just as the Festa parade was departing from the hall on its way southeast along the Filbert/ Girard/ Glen route to St. Mary's Star of the Sea Church (see the comments below for a map of the area). It struck me as odd that there were so few people along Filbert Street watching them depart.

Note that this and our other recent posts would not be possible without our members sharing their historic photos. We welcome the chance to see any such photos and to help preserve the history they reflect and bring it to life.

Obrigado!

Mike Moyle
Historian, IDESST Sausalito Portuguese Cultural Center
Email: [email protected]

There is so much history out there about our community, and so much of it interconnected!! Putting together the post I ...
08/07/2026

There is so much history out there about our community, and so much of it interconnected!! Putting together the post I shared on Wednesday regarding the set of historic photos that the Brazil family had sent to us (https://bit.ly/4hVIefV) led me back in my files to review some of the other materials we have regarding our many past Festas. Here are a couple of articles from 1957 which particularly caught my eye. That would have been just a few years after our new, current hall was opened in 1953.

The June 3, 1957 article on the left nicely captures the activity at that year's calf auction at our barn and corral complex on Olima Street. That same location was the subject of two in the photos in the Brazil post - "Photo J" with another view of an calf auction (although with far less activity apparent), and "Photo K" from a few years later showing the dedication of the new Rotary Village on the same site.

The June 10, 1957 article on the right reports that Festa Sunday was a rainy one. The parade was canceled and a short walk substituted. Still, it seemed that a crowd of around 3,000 turned out for the event. I hope they had prepared enough "sopas"!!

The caption to the photo states that IDESST President, Manuel Brazil, Tony Brazil's older brother, is leading the abbreviated procession. However, we believe the gentleman carrying the crown is instead John Silva, the father of the Senior Queen (see the comments below for a photo of John). The photo also shows Matts Perry, part of Sausalito's prominent Perry (Perreira) family, sheltering our Queen from the rain. Matts was Sausalito's Fire Chief from 1944 to 1965 and appears in the Guidebook for our Sausalito Portuguese Heritage Walking Tour (https://bit.ly/3kyMBix) at Stop #4. His family's Perry Building at the intersection of Caledonia and Pine is Stop #14.

Jean Silva and Nancy Joseph were our Senior and Junior Queens in 1957, and I have included their photos from our archives. See the comments below for a bit more about Jean's family. I'm sorry I was not able to find more about Nancy - hopefully someone out there can share more information about her as well.

Mike Moyle
Historian, IDESST Sausalito Portuguese Cultural Center
Email: [email protected]

We always love to see old photos that related to our Center and the many people who have been part of it! Many of you w...
08/05/2026

We always love to see old photos that related to our Center and the many people who have been part of it! Many of you will remember Tony Brazil and his wife, Theresa, who played a key role in our history. Both Tony, and before him his older brother, Manuel, served as President of our organization, each for several years.

Recently, members of Tony and Theresa's family shared a set of photos related to the Center, primarily related to our Festa. Happily, either Tony or Theresa is in every one of them. I have collected eleven of those photos into two collages, the photos in the first marked A-F, and those in the second (which is attached to the comment below) marked G-K.

On each photo I have numbered the key individuals and, in the below list, with help from the Brazils, have attempted to identify all of them. However, there are a few that we could not identify which have been left blank. I have also included links to a few earlier posts that relate to some of the individuals and highlight the dense web of connections within our community. Any additional identifications, corrections, comments, and, especially, memories, will be very welcome!

Photo A
1. Jack Cunha - Jack served as the Secretary of our organization for decades. For many years his family operated the dairy in Tennessee Valley where the Miwok Stables are today - https://bit.ly/3xINHy2.
2. Louis Moraes - Louis was a Vice President of our organization. He was the son of Manuel Moraes who designed our current building (https://bit.ly/43qJm0N), and the husband of Grace Pimentel Moraes (https://bit.ly/3opZgtc).
3. Tony Brazil - https://bit.ly/4byBw8V.
4.
5. Tom Nunes - Tom, another of our past Presidents, and part of the Nunes family from Novato, operated the Nunes Dairy in Lucas Valley for many years - https://bit.ly/4eUZuOi

Photo B - at the Ft. Bragg Festa in 2002
1. Tony Machado
2. Louis Moraes
3.
4. Tony Brazil

Photo C
1. Manuel Brazil - Manuel was Tony's older brother and, like Tony, served as our President for many years, including during the 1953 transition from our original hall on Street to our current hall on Caledonia - https://bit.ly/3NuVbv4
2. Tony Brazil
3. Konnie Knudsen - Konnie was born in Waldo (where Marin City is today). His mother was a Bettencourt, and he married another Bettencourt. He is featured at Stops #22, #28 and #29 on our Sausalito Portuguese Heritage Walking Tour - https://bit.ly/3kyMBix.
4. Manuel Silva - Manuel and his wife, Dorothy, lived on Tennessee Valley road in a house that is Stop #31 on our walking tour. Manuel was another of our past Presidents. See also https://bit.ly/3MosMp6.
5. Louis Moraes

Photo D.
1. Louis Moraes
2. Tony Brazil
3. _____

Photo E
1. Tony Brazil
2. Joe Souza - Joe was part of the Souza family that had dairies near Muir Beach - https://bit.ly/3EpCcgi
3. Konnie Knudsen

Photo F - at Sausalito's St. Mary's Star of the Sea Church, in front of the Queen Isabel statue, a gift from the Portuguese community.
1. _____
2. Tony Machado
3. Louis Moraes
4. Tony Brazil
5. _____

Photo G
1. Bill Raudio, a former IDESST director and President of the IDESI Portuguese Hall of Novato
2. Avila Jennings, one of Tony Brazil's granddaughters (the daughter of Jeanette Brazil Jennings)
3. Mandy Brazil another of Tony Brazil's granddaughters (the daughter of Tony's son, Manuel Brazil)
4. Tony Brazil
5. Jack Cunha

Photo H
1. Tony
2. _____ (portraying Queen Isabel)

I - taken at the 100th anniversary of our organization in 1988, a celebration that included a gathering of a large group of women who had all served as a Queen in one of our Festas
1. Sidney Marques
2. Theresa Brazil, Tony's wife - I wrote this about Theresa at the time of her passing 2024 -https://bit.ly/4lLx50T
3. Isabel Borba Marques - Isabel was Sydney's wife, and our Senior Queen at our 1953 Festa (the first held in our new hall). See the comments below for additional photos of Isabel taken when she was Queen and at the 100th anniversary celebration

Photo J - annual Festa auction at the IDESST barn and corral on Olima Street in Sausalito - see Stop #26 on our Walking Tour.
1. Frank Bello
2. Joe Alves
3. Tony Brazil
4. Tony Machado
5. _____

Photo K - dedication of the new Rotary Village senior housing on Olima Street. The Sausalito Rotary Club purchased the property on which the IDESST barn/corral (Photo I) had been located to build that complex. See the comments below for an article about the dedication event, as well as Stop #26
1. Paul Andersen
2. Bill Rich
3. Barbara Rich
4. Dennis Scremin
5. Robin Sweeney
6. Tony Brazil

If anyone has similar photos that you would like to share, I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks again to the Brazils for sharing this set.

Mike Moyle
Historian, IDESST Sausalito Portuguese Cultural Center
Email: [email protected]

Our friends in Petaluma will be celebrating their Santo António Festa tomorrow!!
08/01/2026

Our friends in Petaluma will be celebrating their Santo António Festa tomorrow!!

Thanks to everyone who was able to attend my Marin History Museum talk last night about the history of the Marin Dairyme...
07/29/2026

Thanks to everyone who was able to attend my Marin History Museum talk last night about the history of the Marin Dairymen's Milk Company, aka Marin-Dell, and, in particular, the 1950 set of "Marin-Dell binders" which capture the individual histories of the 62 dairies that were at that time suppliers to Marin-Dell. They provide a wonderful look at the histories of Marin and Sonoma Counties and of the families that help to build them.

For any who are interested, I have recorded a version of last night's talk which is now available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/AXuce7t6NbM. During my presentation I refer to various other links -- here they are:

• The Marin-Dell binders on the Novato History Museum website (just scroll down to "Marin Dell Milk Company"): https://www.novatohistory.org/novato

• The Google Map showing the locations of the 62 dairies in the binders (note that I am quite sure of the locations in Marin, but less sure of the locations in Sonoma and Napa -- any clarifications will be most welcome!): https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1IInMfm2zgxL1yDAtX4wBkYY2ZlYXQeiu&usp=sharing

• "Marin's Dairy History: There were HOW many dairies??" - my April 25, 2023 talk for the Marin History Museum: https://youtu.be/dFiUhTI2xiA

• "Southern Marin's Portuguese Roots" - my March 2, 2023 talk for the Mill Valley Historical Society: https://youtu.be/EL0y5L6Q7M8?si=romwuF72CDykEi-I.

• A set of resources related to Marin's Portuguese heritage prepared in connection with my MVHS talk: https://bit.ly/49LgNyC.

I hope you will enjoy those materials. I always appreciate any comments about Marin's Portuguese heritage or our dairy history. Special thanks to the Silveira family for their donation of the Marin Dell binders to the Novato History Museum and for the Museum's efforts to make them publicly available.

Mike Moyle
Historian, IDESST Sausalito Portuguese Cultural Center
Email: [email protected]

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