The story of a pioneering family of Dalmatian immigrants is kept alive through a cluster of rustic sheds on an historic farm near Thames. Lorenza Devcich's ancestors ran a gumdiggers trading post, vineyard and mill on the land where she now keeps a menagerie of birds, welcoming tourists to get a taste of the past.
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