MEMORIES: Gino Corsini (at left) made the trip from Italy at just 19, arriving in Australia in 1952, spending time in a migrant camp before heading to Queensland to find employment as a gardener, cutting cane and on a tobacco farm. Today at 89 (on right) he enjoys watching his children and grandchildren forge their own paths in life from the cellar door he built at La Cantina King Valley. PHOTO: Anita McPherson Id:29056
THE Corsini family of the King Valley is celebrating 70 years since patriarch Gino Corsini embarked on the journey of a lifetime, arriving in Australia after bravely leaving his homeland of Italy.
Gino was just 19 when he boarded the Castel Bianco in 1952 with a friend, spending 28 days at sea before arriving in Australia on August 1 where they were sent to the Greta migrant camp in New South Wales...
